Elder sisters never can do younger ones justice!

The mistake we make, is when we seek to be beloved, instead of loving.

James's expedition to Scotland is wholly imaginary, though there appears to have been space for it during Henry's progress to the North to pay his devotions at Beverley Minster.

A woman without a degree of decency and delicacy is unsexed.

General rules are dangerous of application in particular instances.

I thought one only had to speak Latin through one's nose and bite off the end.

That the women of the Old Testament were dressed with oriental richness there is no doubt, nor are they censured for so arraying themselves.

Refinement is just as much a Christian grace in a man as in a woman; but he is not such a hateful, unsexed creature without it as a woman is.

Refinement is the delicate aroma of Christianity.

many men are neither worthy of their wives, nor of their dogs.

I love like a beaten child and I trust like an addict.

When I was in elementary school, I used to write letters to myself. I'd write letters and go 'Dear Kristen-at-16-years-old, happy birthday. I hope you're doing something.'

All my ambition is, I own, to profit and to please unknown; like streams supplied from springs below, which scatter blessings as they go.

Being trendy is dangerous. I've never been trendy, which is why I've never really fallen out of favour.

There's always a way through things if you work hard enough and look close. It all depends on your level of determination.

Read at whim! Read at whim!

To my mind, the prose in a non-fiction work that's going to endure has to be of the same quality as the prose in a work of fiction that endures.

I am growing to love DC.This [Washington] is a beautiful city. I think every citizen should come see their capital. A lot of the museums are free, there are restaurants that are reasonably priced.

The Constitution does not require complete separation of church and state; it affirmatively mandates accommodation, not merely tolerance, of all religions, and forbids hostility toward any.

You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time.