“[On her recently widowed father’s much younger wife:] My father has been very busy in conjugating the verb to love, and I assure you he declines its moods and tenses inimitably.”

Wherever I am, I see the yoke on women in some form or another. On some it sits easy for they are but beasts of burden.

On some it galls and chafes; they feel assured by every instinct of their nature that they were designed for a higher, nobler calling than to ‘drag life’s lengthening chain along.

Is not sorrow, all sorrow, selfish?

On others pride hushes them to silence; no complaint is made for they scorn pity or sympathy.

Some flowers give out little or no odour until crushed.

Girls are taught to seem, to appear – not to be and do.

Don’t assume before you are assured.

Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing.

I solemnly assure you that I will not die as a Hindu.

We are never assured of justice without a fight.

It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful.

If i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.

The past feels distant, even when it’s near. The future feels assured, even when it isn’t.

See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.