a little misgiving in the beginning of things, means much regret in the end of them.

Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.

Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.

But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.

... money trials are not the hardest, and somehow or other, they are always overcome.

We generally get the evil we expect.

All my life long I have been sensible of the injustice constantly done to women. Since I have had to fight the world single-handed, there has not been one day I have not smarted under the wrongs I have had to bear, because I was not only a woman, but a woman doing a man's work, without any man, husband, son, brother or friend, to stand at my side, and to see some semblance of justice done me. I cannot forget, for injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.