We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.

At some future day it will be proved, I cannot say when and where, that the human soul is, while in earth life, already in an uninterrupted communication with those living in another world.

An action is essentially good if the motive of the agent be good, regardless of the consequences.

Art is purposiveness without purpose.

Physicians think they do a lot for a patient when they give his disease a name.

The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space.

Feminine traits are called weaknesses. People joke about them; fools ridicule them; but reasonable persons see very well that those traits are just the tools for the management of men, and for the use of men for female designs.