Edward FitzGerald - Letters of Edward FitzGerald (1830)

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Leave well — even 'pretty well' — alone: that is what I learn as I get old.

Edward FitzGerald

Mrs Browning's death is rather a relief to me, I must say: no more Aurora Leighs, thank God! A woman of real genius, I know; but what is the upshot of it all? She and her sex had better mind the kitchen and their children; and perhaps the poor: except in such things as little novels, they only devote themselves to what men do much better, leaving that which men do worse or not at all.

Edward FitzGerald