I believe journalism is coming to be regarded as quite a respectable occupation for gentlemen nowadays.

I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.

Easy reading requires hard writing.

Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.

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

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

It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.