It is the steady and merciless increase of occupations, the augmented speed at which we are always trying to live, the crowding of each day with more work than it can profitably hold, which has cost us, among other things, the undisturbed enjoyment of friends. Friendship takes time, and we have no time to give it.

History is not written in the interests of morality.

Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.

For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.

Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.

The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.

This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.