There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice.

You think that I am impoverishing myself withdrawing from men, but in my solitude I have woven for myself a silken web or chrysalis, and, nymph-like, shall ere long burst forth a more perfect creature, fitted for a higher society.

When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc... I see that they forget that the first requisite and rule is that expression shall be vital and natural.

There is an orientalism in the most restless pioneer, and the farthest west is but the farthest east.

As I drew a still fresher soil about the rows with my hoe, I disturbed the ashes of unchronicled nations who in primeval years lived under these heavens, and their small implements of war and hunting were brought to the light of this modern day.

I have heard of many going astray even in the village streets, when the darkness was so thick you could cut it with a knife, as the saying is...