Life may take away happiness. But it can't take away having had it.

So long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect.

[Reformers] might be classified as a distinct species having eyes in the back of their heads.

Apart from letters, it is the vulgar custom of the moment to deride the thinkers of the Victorian and Edwardian eras; yet there has not been, in all history, another agewhen so much sheer mental energy was directed toward creating a fairer social order.

I never saw the man yet that came out of politics as clean as he went into 'em.

In her abhorrrence of a vacuum, Nature, for the furtherance of her favorite hobby, has often to resort to strange devices. If she could but understand that vacuity is sometimes better than superfluity!

To mourn was distressing, but to endeavor to mourn and fail was worse than distress.