Hurry, drive and bustle ... Everybody looking out for number one, and caring little who jostled past, if their rights were not infringed.

When a literary person's exhaustive work is over, the last thing he wishes to do is to talk books.

Advice is like a doctor's pills; how easily he gives them! how reluctantly he takes them when his turn comes!

To her, the name of father was another name for love.

Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all.

What a pity when editors review a woman's book, that they so often fall into the error of reviewing the woman instead.

It is the most astonishing thing that persons who have not sufficient education to spell correctly, to punctuate properly, to place capital letters in the right places, should, when other means of support fail, send mss. for publication.