Beauty - what is beauty, forsooth? Form and color; that is, surface only. Fortune - what is fortune? Nothing is ever a pleasure or a real profit to him who has to labour for it. Truth - you die in the pursuit, and the sea beats the beach as it did a thousand years ago. The stolid are alone happy.

There are people in this servile world who will endure any trampling, and at the first beck rush delightedly to proffer their assistance.

Every woman likes her own way, but no woman can endure to see another woman master even over a man who does not concern her.

Richard Jefferies Quotes