I 'spect I growed. Don't think nobody never made me.

For how imperiously, how coolly, in disregard of all one’s feelings, does the hard, cold, uninteresting course of daily realities move on! Still we must eat, and drink, and sleep, and wake again, - still bargain, buy, sell, ask and answer questions, - pursue, in short, a thousand shadows, though all interest in them be over; the cold, mechanical habit of living remaining, after all vital interest in it has fled.

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

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.

Religion! Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend and turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phase of selfish, worldly society, religion?

When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that 's just the place and time that the tide'll turn.

It is generally understood that men don't aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world.