Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.

The best education is to be had at a price, as well as the best broadcloth.

That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.

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.

A woman's life is not perfect or whole till she has added herself to a husband. Nor is a man's life perfect or whole till he has added to himself a wife.

He was one of those men who, as in youth they are never very young, so in age are they never very old.

It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.