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.

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.

Our sex bears the disgrace not only of a great deal of genuine poltroonery, but also of much which is mere affectation.

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.

[Women's] duty is nothing else than the fulfilment [sic] of the whole moral law, the attainment of every human virtue.

The time comes to every dog when it ceases to care for people merely for biscuits or bones, or even for caresses, and walks out of doors. When a dog really loves, it prefers the person who gives it nothing, and perhaps is too ill ever to take it out for exercise, to all the liberal cooks and active dog-boys in the world.