Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes!

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

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.

O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, "Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

The same quickness which makes a mind buoyant in gladness often makes it gentlest and most sympathetic in sorrow.