What we gain by experience is more real and more solid than what we gain by reasoning.
The elements of mind are to be discovered by systematic introspection.
And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.Literary and Other Notes I, Woman’s World （November 1887）
The past is not a burden but a foundation upon which we build our future.