I have often thought how strange it is that men can at once and the same moment cheerfully consign our sex to lives either of narrowest toil or senseless luxury and vanity, and then sneer at the smallness of our aims, the pettiness of our thoughts, the puerility of our conversation!

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.

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

If a woman be herself pure and noble-hearted, she will come into every circle as a person does into a heated room, who carries with him the freshness of the woods where he has been walking.

I think it is worse to be poor in mind than in purse, to be stunted and belittled in soul, made a coward, made a liar, made mean and slavish, accustomed to fawn and prevaricate, and "manage" by base arts a husband or a father,--I think this is worse than to be kicked with hobnailed shoes.

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.

The nest may be constructed, so far as the sticks go, by the male bird; but only the hen can line it with moss and down!