Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled.

That person is most cultivated who is able to put himself in the place of the greatest number of other persons.

The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.

I am not one of those who believe - broadly speaking - that women are better than men. We have not wrecked railroads, nor corrupted legislatures, nor done many unholy things that men have done; but then we must remember that we have not had the chance.

The common stock of intellectual enjoyment should not be difficult of access because of the economic position of him who would approach it.

The rich landlord is he who collects with sternness, who accepts no excuse, and will have his own. There are moments of irritation and of real bitterness against him, but there is still admiration, because he is rich and successful.

The cheap drama brings cause and effect, will power and action, once more into relation and gives a man the thrilling conviction that he may yet be master of his fate.