It's no trifle at her time at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution.

Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid--too timid even to believe in the correctness of their own best promptings, when these would place them in a minority.

It is a wonderful subduer-this need of love, this hunger of the heart.

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.

Love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object, and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery.

Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses.

... there is a lightness about the feminine mind--a touch and go--music, the fine arts, that kind of thing--they should study those up to a certain point, women should; but in a light way, you know.