There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots.

The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.

In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness.

The fact is, both callers and work thicken - the former sadly interfering with the latter.

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offense. ... Everyone who contributes to the 'too much' of literature is doing grave social injury.

Those old stories of visions and dreams guiding men have their truth; we are saved by making the future present to ourselves.

The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth.