No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

What people do who go into politics I can't think; it drives me almost mad to see mismanagement over only a few hundred acres.

Brothers are so unpleasant.

If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.

Her heart went out to him with a stronger movement than ever, at the thought that people would blame him. Maggie hated blame; she had been blamed her whole life, and nothing had come of it but evil tempers.

There's folks as make bad butter and trusten to the salt t' hide it.