You don’t have to speak at all—I know what you’d say…- Laura

Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.

Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.

I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.

No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.

The mystery which underlies the beauty of women is never raised above the reach of all expression until it has claimed kindred with the deeper mystery in our own souls.

The fool's crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man's crime is the crime that is not found out.

I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them machines for the production of incessant noise.

The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared.

But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes failing and falling back?

I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to meet the cool night air in the suburbs.

There is so much evil in emphasizing too much miracles.

If we say something often enough, we come to believe it. We don't usually delude others until after we have first deluded ourselves.

I like normal life, but I will go crazy if Im not working.

I am not scared of making mistakes.

Whilst the Bihar calamity damages the body, the calamity brought about by untouchability corrodes the very soul.

No nation ever rises higher than its women.

It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen

Not the ones speaking the same language, but the ones sharing the same feeling understand each other.

Walk out like someone suddenly born into colour. Do it now.