Life is moral responsibility.

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.

Possibly the Creator did not make the world chiefly for the purpose of providing studies for gifted novelists; but if He had done so, we can scarcely imagine that He could have offered anything much better in the way of material.

I can remember no time when I did not understand that my mother must write books because people would have and read them; but I cannot remember one hour in which her children needed her and did not find her.

A perfect marriage is like a pure heart ... those who have it are fit to see God.

It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better.

What an immense power over life is the power of possessing distinct aims.