It is not that women are really smaller-minded, weaker-minded, more timid and vacillating, but that whosoever, man or woman, lives always in a small, dark place, is always guarded, protected, directed and restrained, will become inevitably narrowed and weakened by it.

In business life, that is, in its material processes, we eagerly accept the new. In social life, in all our social processes, we piously, valiantly, obdurately, maintain the old.

The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.

It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight.

To speak broadly, the troubles of life as we find them are mainly traceable to the heart or the purse.

Grateful return for happiness conferred is not the method of exchange in a partnership. The comfort a man takes with his wife is not in the nature of a business partnership, nor are her frugality and industry.

To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.