It is difficult for woman to try to be anything good when she is not believed in.

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

Those bitter sorrows of childhood!-- when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless.

That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.

A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.

Can anything be more disgusting than to hear people called 'educated' making small jokes about eating ham, and showing themselves empty of any real knowledge as to the relation of their own social and religious life to the history of the people they think themselves witty in insulting? [...] The best thing that can be said of it is, that it is a sign of the intellectual narrowness—in plain English, the stupidity which is still the average mark of our culture.

Mankind is not disposed to look narrowly into the conduct of great victors when their victory is on the right side.