Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.

There is life in the ground; it goes into the seeds and also when it is stirred up goes into the man who stirs it.

Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and recreates.

You want to hate somebody, if you can, just to keep your powers of discrimination bright, and to save yourself from becoming a mere mush of good-nature.

It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.

The principal value of a garden is not understood. It is not to give the possessors vegetables and fruit (that can be better and cheaper done by the market-gardeners), but to teach him patience and philosophy, and the higher virtues - hope deferred, and expectations blighted, leading directly to resignation, and sometimes to alienation.

How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man?