Husbands are an inferior class of men, who require keeping in order.

It is better sometimes not to follow great reformers of abuses beyond the threshold of their homes.

The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.

Try to take hold of your sensibility, and use it as if it were a faculty, like vision.

Resolve will melt no rocks. But it can scale them.

I think I am quite wicked with roses. I like to gather them, and smell them till they have no scent left.

Our selfishness is so robust and many-clutching that, well encouraged, it easily devours all sustenance away from our poor little scruples.