Dying is not difficult, yielding is impossible.

We have not the slightest idea that women are made of such light material that the breath of any fool or knave may blow them on the rocks of ruin.

I cannot tell what I am as much afraid of, as a woman who invariably washes on Monday. It is a kind of key to character; and if her mouth is not puckered and her brow wrinkled, they will be, unless she repents.

It appears to be a matter of national pride that the President is to have more mud, and blacker mud, and filthier mud in front ofhis door than any other man can afford.

It is an old adage, "All is fair in love as in war," but I thought not of general laws, and only felt a private grievance.

I must be the mate of the man I had chosen; and if he would not come to my level, I must go to his.

Girls, do not scrub and cook and scour until you have no time left to plant a tree, or vine or flower.