Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.

Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.

'Passion' a word which involves so many feelings. I feel it when we touch; I feel it when we kiss; I feel it when I look at you. For you are my passion; my one true love.

That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!

Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health.

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.

To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.

I want my world to start and end with you.

we are destroyed or uplifted by what they hear instantly or cumulatively

I’m sorry for blaming you for everything I just couldn’t do, and I’ve hurt myself by hurting you.

There are so many people working so hard and achieving so little.

Many women are now holding posts of grave responsibility in city and country and state and nation, and their number must be greatly increased.

Blasphemy? No, it is not blashphemy. If God is as vast as that, he is above blasphemy; if he is as little as that, He is beneath it.

There's such a wealth of great music, clothes or whatever. There is so much great stuff out there, that why would you not still be interested if you've grown up in that kind of culture?

We may never truly see the fruits of the labor.

If we were not called upon to work in order to survive, we might simply lie around all day doing nothing.

The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.