Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.

Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.

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.

and we must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range of music, and will not vibrate in the least under a touch that fills others with tremulous rapture or quivering agony.

I've always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you.

For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.