Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things.

Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose all appetite and repose; whereas such as are actually poor, slaves, or exiles, ofttimes live as merrily as other folk.

Every movement reveals us.

An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity.

Natural inclinations are assisted and reinforced by education, but they are hardly ever altered or overcome.

My art and profession is to live.