"I have noticed... that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women."

"I am convinced that the law of non-violence has come to stay."

"To be truthful, you must be non-violent."

"To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul."

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

"I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone."