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.

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

And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.

I'll tell you what's the greatest power under heaven, and that is public opinion-the ruling belief in society about what is right and what is wrong, what is honourable and what is shameful. That's the steam that is to work the engines.

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

... it is because sympathy is but a living again through our own past in a new form, that confession often prompts a response of confession.

Steady work turns genius to a loom.