But the way to wealth through the quill seems long.

- Elizabeth Charles

great inventors and discoverers seem to have made their discoveries and inventions as it were by the way, in the course of their everyday life.

- Elizabeth Charles

To know how to say what other people only think, is what makes poets and sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think, makes men martyrs …

- Elizabeth Charles

When we call on God, he bends down His ear to listen, as a father bends down to listen to his little child.

- Elizabeth Charles

The devil makes a great deal of the religion we see.

- Elizabeth Charles

The devil never seems so busy as where the saints are, which is another reason why I feel how difficult it would be to be religious.

- Elizabeth Charles