Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.

Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be. . . .

To fear the examination of any proposition apears to me an intellectual and a moral palsy that will ever hinder the firm grasping of any substance whatever.

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

You may try — but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you, and yet to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

It is always chilling, in friendly intercourse, to say you have no opinion to give.

bad literature of the sort called amusing is spiritual gin.