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.

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

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

Every woman who has any margin of time or money to spare should adopt some one public interest, some philanthropic undertaking,or some social agitation of reform, and give to that cause whatever time and work she may be able to afford.

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.

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.

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.