Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother

If there is anything we are serious about, it is neither religion nor learning, but food.

I have done my best. That is about all the philosophy of living one needs.

Of the many rights of ladies, the best should be to be considered a mother.

Why should man bother himself so much about salvation, unless he has a feeling of being doomed?

The busy man is never wise and the wise man is never busy.

How many of us are able to distinguish between the odors of noon and midnight, or of winter and summer, or of a windy spell and a still one? If man is so generally less happy in the cities than in the country, it is because all these variations and nuances of sight and smell and sound are less clearly marked and lost in the general monotony of gray walls and cement pavements.