I don't know why it should be, I am sure; but the sight of another man asleep in bed when I am up, maddens me.

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.

(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's really extraordinary what a variety of ways of loving there must be. We all do it as it was never done before.

Cheese, like oil, makes too much of itself.

What readers ask nowadays in a book is that it should improve, instruct, and elevate. This book wouldn't elevate a cow.

I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.