Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.

Let every woman, who has once begun to think, examine herself

Who does not observe the immediate glow and security that is diffused over the life of woman, before restless or fretful, by engaging in gardening, building, or the lowest department of art? Here is something that is not routine--something that draws forth life towards the infinite.

Some degree of expression is necessary for growth, but it should be little in proportion to the full life.

A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body. For human beings are not so constituted that they can live without expansion. If they do not get it in one way, they must in another, or perish.

Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - a house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

How many persons must there be who cannot worship alone since they are content with so little.