Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science.

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

Correct English is the slang of prigs.

I don't want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.

Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.

Things are achieved when they are well begun.

Certainly the determining acts of her life were not ideally beautiful. They were the mixed result of young and novel impulse struggling amidst the conditions of an imperfect social state, in which great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.