I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

But she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex in the light of animals whom it had pleased Heaven to make naturally troublesome, like bulls and turkey-cocks.

Character is not cut in marble - it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.