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.

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

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

... to work, to work hard, to see work steadily, and see it whole, was the way to be reputable. I think I always respected a goodblacksmith more than a lady of leisure.

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

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

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.