Once victim, always victim -- that's the law!

Aspect are within us, and who seems most kingly is king.

If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst.

Don't you go believing in sayings, Picotee: they are all made by men, for their own advantages. Women who use public proverbs as a guide through events are those who have not ingenuity enough to make private ones as each event occurs.

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

If all hearts were open and all desires known -- as they would be if people showed their souls -- how many gapings, sighings, clenched fists, knotted brows, broad grins, and red eyes should we see in the market-place!

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on, projecting trait and trace through time to times anon, and leaping from place to place over oblivion.