Occupation was one of the pleasures of paradise, and we cannot be happy without it.

I do not like new things of any kind, not even a new gown, far less a new acquaintance, therefore make as few as possible; one can but have one's heart and hands full, and mine are. I have love and work enough to last me the rest of my life.

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.

In every mind where there is a strong tendency to fear there is a strong capacity to hate. Those who dwell in fear dwell nest door to hate; and I think it is the cowardice of women which makes them such intense haters.

There are no such self-deceivers as those who think they reason when they only feel.

Occupation was one of the pleasures of paradise, and we cannot be happy without it.

To reason from analogy is often dangerous, but to illustrate by a fanciful analogy is sometimes a means by which we light an idea, as it were, into the understanding of another.