Ambition is only vanity ennobled.

If there is one person I do despise more than another, it is the man who does not think exactly the same on all topics as I do.

It is only the first baby that takes up the whole of a woman's time.Five or six do not require nearly so much attention as one.

It is well we cannot see into the future. There are few boys of fourteen who would not feel ashamed of themselves at forty.

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

(Speaking of the Cistercian monks) A grim fraternity, passing grim lives in that sweet spot, that God had made so bright! Strange that Nature's voices all around them--the soft singing of the waters, the wisperings of the river grass, the music of the rushing wind--should not have taught them a truer meaning of life than this. They listened there, through the long days, in silence, waiting for a voice from heaven; and all day long and through the solemn night it spoke to them in myriad tones, and they heard it not.

It takes 3 girls to tow always; two to hold the rope, and the other one runs round and round, and giggles.