in America, far too large a portion of the diet consists of animal food. As a nation, the Americans are proverbial for the gross and luxurious diet with which they load their tables; and there can be no doubt that the general health of the nation would be increased by a change in our customs in this respect.

One of the greatest reforms that could be, in these reforming days ... would be to have women architects. The mischief with the houses built to rent is that they are all male contrivances.

Get your evidences of grace by pressing forward to the mark, and not by groping with a lantern after the boundary lines.

I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people's glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.

Dogs can bear more cold than human beings, but they do not like cold any better than we do; and when a dog has his choice, he will very gladly stretch himself on a rug before the fire for his afternoon nap.

Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.

If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.