In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness.

Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.

The worst service, I fancy, that anyone can do for truth, is to set silly people writing on its behalf.

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

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.

Can any man or woman choose duties? No more than they can choose their birthplace or their father and mother.

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