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

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.

The soaring, imaginative minds of men, constructing lofty, shimmering piles of abstract thought, and taking as their postulate a revelation from God, gaveus relgions which coule not possible maintained without belief and obedience: ... we find them most permanent and changeless among people who make the least effort to swquare their beliefs with the laws of life.

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.

Never in all her life had she imagined that this idolized millinery could look, to those who paid for it, like the decorations of an insane monkey.

I have preferred chloroform to cancer