Human nature is above all things lazy.

My vocation to preach on paper.

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.

No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.

he who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.

If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.

So we go, so little knowing what we touch and what touches us as we talk! We drop out a common piece of news, "Mr. So-and-so is dead, Miss Such-a-one is married, such a ship has sailed," and lo, on our right hand or on our left, some heart has sunk under the news silently - gone down in the great ocean of Fate, without even a bubble rising to tell its drowning pang. And this - God help us! - is what we call living!