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

You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you must not be ashamed of your work, and think it would be more honorable to you to be doing something else. You must have a pride in your own work and in learning to do it well.

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

Human experience is usually paradoxical.

Starting a long way off the true point, and proceeding by loops and zigzags , we now and then arrive just where we ought to be.

The idea of duty--that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self--is to the moral life what the addition of a great central ganglion is to animal life.

Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it.