I believe in women; and in their right to their own best possibilities in every department of life. I believe that the methods ofdress practiced among women are a marked hindrance to the realization of these possibilities, and should be scorned or persuaded out of society.

Superior music is purity itself; it clears the air.

Life is moral responsibility.

Truth, like climate, is common property.

Who originated that most exquisite of inquisitions, the condolence system?

Imagination is built upon knowledge.

... when one reflects on the books one never has written, and never may, though their schedules lie in the beautiful chirography which marks the inception of an unexpressed thought upon the pages of one's notebook, one is aware, of any given idea, that the chances are against its ever being offered to one's dearest readers.