If Art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.

There are robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer.

Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.

And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.

We are apt to think it the finest era of the world when America was beginning to be discovered, when a bold sailor, even if he were wrecked, might alight on a new kingdom.

I am open to conviction on all points except dinner and debts. I hold that the one must be eaten and the other paid.

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.