My great panacea for making society at once better and more enjoyable would be to cultivate greater sincerity.

It is a woman, and only a woman, — a woman all by herself, if she likes, and without any man to help her, — who can turn a house into a home.

Science is but a mere heap of facts, not a golden chain of truths, if we refuse to link it to the throne of God.

I could discern clearly, even at that early age, the essential difference between people who are kind to dogs and people who really love them.

Pleasures of the mind have this advantage,--they never cloy nor wear themselves out, but increase by employment.

Ours is the old, old story of every uprising race or class or order. The work of elevation must be wrought by ourselves or not at all.

Men give us most rarely that which we really want, not favor, but - Justice. Nothing is easier than to coax them to pet us like children, nothing more difficult than to persuade them to treat us like responsible human beings.