Action is the parent of results; dormancy, the brooding mother of discontent.

When the ship is going down we trouble ourselves little enough about the style of the cabin furniture.

A perfect marriage is as rare as a perfect love. Could it be otherwise, when both men and women are so imperfect? Could aught else be expected? Yet all do expect it.

never was there a thoroughly noble nature without some romance in it.

One only "right" we have to assert in common with mankind--and that is as much in our hands as theirs--is the right of having something to do.

Unless a woman has a decided pleasure and facility in teaching, an honest knowledge of everything she professes to impart, a liking for children, and, above all, a strong moral sense of her responsibility towards them, for her to attempt to enroll herself in the scholastic order is absolute profanation.

One cannot make oneself, but one can sometimes help a little in the making of somebody else. It is well.