In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's sake. The difference is that if that one person in a thousand is a man, we say, simply, that he is passionately keen on his job; if she is a woman, we say she is a freak.

Learning and literature have a way of outlasting the civilization that made them.

I gather that he nearly knocked you down, damaged your property, and generally made a nuisance of himself, and that you instantly concluded he must be some relation to me.

you can give it a long name if you like, but I'm an old-fashioned woman and I call it mother-wit, and it's so rare for a man to have it that if he does you write a book about him and call him Sherlock Holmes.

She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away.

If men will not understand the meaning of judgement, they will never come to understand the meaning of grace.

Nothing is more cruel to the young than to tell them that the world is made for youth.