We have built into the constitution of the human race the habit and desire of taking, as divorced from its natural precursor and concomitant of making.

It would have saved trouble had I remained Perkins from the first, this changing of women's names is a nuisance we are now happily outgrowing.

Not woman, but the condition of woman, has always been a doorway of evil.

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

Let us inquire what glory there was in an omnipotent being torturing forever a puny little creature who could in no way defend himself? Would it be to the glory of a man to fry ants?

I cry at nothing, and cry most of the time.

A concept is stronger than a fact.