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.

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come short.

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.

Gems, in fact, are a species of mineral flowers; they are the blossoms of the dark, hard mine; and what they want in perfume, they make up in durability.

Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!

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.