If a woman's young and pretty, I think you can see her good looks all the better for her being plainly dressed.

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.

Her heart went out to him with a stronger movement than ever, at the thought that people would blame him. Maggie hated blame; she had been blamed her whole life, and nothing had come of it but evil tempers.

... the majority of us scarcely see more distinctly the faultiness of our own conduct than the faultiness of our own arguments, orthe dulness [sic] of our own jokes.

All our ignorance brings us closer to death.

I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.