Show me the woman, however loyal, who does not seek to rouse desire.

Mud, raised by hurricanes, wells up in the noblest and purest of hearts.

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.

Reproach is usually honest, which is more than can be said of praise.

In the medical profession a horse and carriage are more necessary than any scientific knowledge.

Possibly the words materialism and spirituality express two sides of one and the same fact.

It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.