Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.

There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to have a discussion coolly waived when you feel that justice is all on your own side is even more exasperating in marriage than in philosophy.

Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.

Oh may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence.