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

The distractions, the exhaustions, the savage noises, the demands of town life, are, for me, mortal enemies to thought, to sleep,and to study; its extremes of squalor and of splendor do not stimulate, but sadden me; certain phases of its society I profoundly value, but would sacrifice them to the heaven of country quiet, if I had to choose between.

The woman's personal identity is a vast undiscovered country -- with which Society has yet to acquaint itself, and by which it is yet to be revolutionized.

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.

A literary woman's best critic is her husband.

It seems to me that life is always undoing for us something that we have just laboriously done.

Surely it is one of the simplest laws of taste in dress, that it shall not attract undue attention from the wearer to the worn.