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

Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.

I do not know whether there be, as a rule, more vocal expression of the sentiment of love between a man and a woman, than there is between two thrushes. They whistle and call to each other, guided by instinct rather than by reason.

The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God. Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.

One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.