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

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!

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!

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.

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.