The world has been busy for some centuries in shutting and locking every door through which a woman could step into wealth, except the door of marriage.

Humankind above all is lazy.

What's your hurry?" Because now is the only time there ever is to do a thing in," said Miss Ophelia.

One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.

intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.

There is no phase of the Italian mind that has not found expression in its music.

The beautiful must ever rest in the arms of the sublime. The gentle needs the strong to sustain it, as much as the rock-flowers need rocks to grow on, or the ivy the rugged wall which it embraces.