God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature.

Every life has its actual blanks, which the ideal must fill up, or which else remain bare & profitless forever.

It has been strange to me to return to life and to feel that I have any sympathy with human beings, after the long interval of quiet and indifference which succeeded my marriage.

The reason why education is usually so poor among women of fashion is, that it is not needed for the life which they elect to lead.

How utterly are one's best thoughts invaded by this going out in society.

Much of the work of every life is done in the dark.

In Virgil's account of the good housewife, who rises early in order to measure out the work of the household, and in Solomon's description of the thrifty woman of his time, one sees the value set upon feminine industry and economy in times far removed from our own.