You are not a woman. You may try – but you can never imagine what it is to have a man’s force of genius in you, and yet to suffer the slavery of being a girl.
Whether it may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.
When we take to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.
What makes life dreary is the want of motive.
We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what we imagine might have been.
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
Those who trust us educate us.
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
The gods have a curse for him who willingly tells another the wrong road.
The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.