Through it [literature] we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future.

Now why should that man have fainted? But he did,and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time!

A man's honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy it.

The fact that women in the home have shut themselves away from the thought and life of the world has done much to retard progress.We fill the world with the children of 20th century A.D. fathers and 20th century B.C. mothers.

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

Life is a verb, not a noun.

California is a state peculiarly addicted to swift enthusiasms. It is a seed-bed of all manner of cults and theories, taken up, and dropped, with equal speed.