We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

We cannot reform our forefathers.

Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love.

I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth.

Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.