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

After all, people may really have in them some vocation which is not quite plain to themselves, may they not? They may seem idle and weak because they are growing. We should be very patient with each other, I think.

Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life──the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within──can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral.

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

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

Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.