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You reason well, and your wit is bold, but you are too prejudiced. You do not let your eyes see nor your ears hear, and that which is outside your daily life is not of account to you. Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are, that some people see things that others cannot? But there are things old and new which must not be contemplated by men's eyes, because they know, or think they know, some things which other men have told them. Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all, and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain. But yet we see around us every day the growth of new beliefs, which think themselves new, and which are yet but the old, which pretend to be young, like the fine ladies at the opera.

I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.

I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.

She has man’s brain—a brain that a man should have were he much gifted—and a woman’s heart.

We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things.

I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us. A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.

But we are strong, each in our purpose; and we are all more strong together.

The world seems full of good men—even if there are monsters in it.

Despair has its own calms.

For life be, after all, only a waitin’ for somethin’ else than what we’re doin’; and death be all that we can rightly depend on.

I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!

Seven years ago we all went through the flames. And the happiness of some of us since then is, we think, well worth the pain we endured.