There are some points on which no man can be contented to follow the advice of another - some subjects on which a man can consult his own conscience only.

A man's own dinner is to himself so important that he cannot bring himself to believe that it is a matter utterly indifferent to anyone else.

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.

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

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

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.