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.

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.

It is not in our drawing-rooms that we should look to judge of the intrinsic worth of any style of dress. The street-car is a truer crucible of its inherent value.

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.

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

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.

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.