Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.

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.

If women want any rights they had better take them, and say nothing about it.

Love needs new leaves every summer of life, as much as your elm-tree, and new branches to grow broader and wider, and new flowers to cover the ground.

The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.

As oil will find its way into crevices where water cannot penetrate, so song will find its way where speech can no longer enter.

It would be an incalculable gain to domestic happiness, if people would begin the concert of life with their instruments tuned to a very low pitch: they who receive the most happiness are generally they who demand and expect the least.