"To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time."

"Women have a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed."

"It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far."

"Women's virtue is man's greatest invention."

"One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions."