Life is moral responsibility.

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.

Out of my discomforts, which were small enough, grew one thing for which I have all my life been grateful, the formation of fixed habits of work.

The rainiest nights, like the rainiest lives, are by no means the saddest.

Imagination is built upon knowledge.

Superior music is purity itself; it clears the air.