Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly worthwhile to call one another's attention to their presence.

It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.

The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.

Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure.

Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.

It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.

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.