Short accounts make long friends.

What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?

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

To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods.

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.

Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.

Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.