I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book.

A human heart can never grow old if it takes a lively interest in the pairing of birds, the reproduction of flowers, and the changing tints of autumn leaves.

I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book.

The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.

[U]sefulness is happiness, and... all other things are but incidental.

It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means.

There was a time when all these things would have passed me by, like the flitting figures of a theatre, sufficient for the amusement of an hour. But now, I have lost the power of looking merely on the surface.