And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some spot of a native land, where it may get the love of tender kinship for the face of earth, for the labors men go forth to, for the sounds and accents that haunt it, for whatever will give that early home a familiar, unmistakable difference amidst the future widening of knowledge.

I am not resigned: I am not sure life is long enough to learn that lesson.

There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence.

Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.