In poor Rosamond's mind there was not room enough for luxuries to look small in.

What courage and patience are wanted for every life that aims to produce anything!

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

Anger seek it prey,-- Something to tear with sharp-edged tooth and claw, Like not to go off hungry, leaving Love To feast on milk and honeycomb at will.

There are characters which are continually creating collisions and nodes for themselves in dramas which nobody is prepared to act with them. Their susceptibilities will clash against objects that remain innocently quiet.

... we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance.

Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat; it turns timidity into fierce courage, and dreadless defiance into tremulous submission; it turns thoughtlessness into foresight, and yet stills all anxiety into calm content; it makes selfishness become self-denial, and gives even to hard vanity the glance of admiring love.