• We have not to construct human nature afresh, but to take it as we find it, and make the best of it.

    Dinah Maria Murlock Craik: We have not to construct human nature afresh, but to take it as we find it, and make the best of it.
    "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 11), 1858.