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

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

I think the effective use of quotation is an important point in the art of writing. Given sparingly, quotations serve admirably as a climax or as a corroboration, but when they are long and frequent, they seriously weaken the effect of a book. We lose sight of the writer - he scatters our sympathy among others than himself - and the ideas which he himself advances are not knit together with our impression of his personality.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

What is your religion? I mean-not what you know about religion but the belief that helps you most?

I know forgiveness is a man's duty, but, to my thinking, that can only mean as you're to give up all thoughts o' taking revenge: it can never mean as you're t' have your old feelings back again, for that's not possible.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.