Who said “Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies…”?

“I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.”

“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.”

“All concord's born of contraries.”

“The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.”

“I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.”

“Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.”

“If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst.”

“Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.”

“A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Circumspection and devotion are a contradiction in terms.”

“It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.”

“Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.”