Humankind above all is lazy.

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.

it isn't mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.

Come down here once, and use your eyes, and you will know more than we can teach you.

there is no independence and pertinacity of opinion like that of these seemingly soft, quiet creatures, whom it is so easy to silence, and so difficult to convince.

All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.