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

the temperaments of children are often as oddly unsuited to parents as if capricious fairies had been filling cradles with changelings.

Greek is the morning land of languages, and has the freshness of early dew in it which will never exhale.

Humankind above all is lazy.

Great as the planning were for the dinner, the lot was so contrived that not a soul in the house be supposed to be kept from the break of day ceremony of Blessing in the church.

...the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.

We hear often of the distress of the negro servants, on the loss of a kind master; and with good reason, for no creature on God's earth is left more utterly unprotected and desolate than the slave in these circumstances.