Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.

Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.

It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away.

Since woman's rights have come up a young woman is better able to fight her own battle.

After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.

But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,--cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.

She was as one who, in madness, was resolute to throw herself from a precipice, but to whom some remnant of sanity remained which forced her to seek those who would save her from herself.