I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.

Heaven is neither a place nor a time.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

The time is come when women must do something more than the "domestic hearth," which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.

Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.

By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.