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

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.

Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive.

Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence.

Life is a verb, not a noun.

It will be a great thing for the human soul when it finally stops worshipping backwards.

What we do modifies us more than what is done to us.