There is nothing more effectual in showing us the weakness of any habitual fallacy or assumption than to hear it sympathetically through the ears, as it were, of a skeptic.

Truly there is nothing in the world so blessed or so sweet as the heritage of children.

I have my own way of dividing people, as I suppose most of us have. There are those whom I can talk to, and those whom I can't.

It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.

Terror of being found out is not always a preservative, it sometimes hurries on the act which it ought to prevent.

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.

I scarcely remember any writer who has ever ventured to say that the half of the work of the world is actually accomplished by women; and very few husbands who would be otherwise than greatly startled and amazed, if not indignant, if not derisive, at the suggestion of such an idea as that the work of their wives was equal to their own.