And where there had been only jeers or taunts at first, crowds came to listen with serious and sympathetic mien.

Making a choice is like backing a horse - in a hundred years, they may decide you picked wrongly.

IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere.

Anyone who realises what Love is, the dedication of the heart, so profound, so absorbing, so mysterious, so imperative, and always just in the noblest natures so strong, cannot fail to see how difficult, how tragic even, must often be the fate of those whose deepest feelings are destined from the earliest days to be a riddle and a stumbling-block, unexplained to themselves, passed over in silence by others.

Motherhood is, after all, woman's great and incomparable work.

What is the good of life if its chief element, and that which must always be its chief element, is odious? No, the only true economy is to arrange so that your daily labor shall be itself a joy.

With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome.