Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.

If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired.

The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration.

A great social reformer.

Though the Life Force supplies us with its own purpose, it has no other brains to work with than those it has painfully and imperfectly evolved in our heads.

Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.