Against the long years when family bonds make up all that is happiest in life, there must always be reckoned those moments of agitation and revolution, during which the bosom of a family is the most unrestful and disturbing place in existence.
Margaret OliphantI 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.
Margaret OliphantNext to happiness, perhaps enmity is the most healthful stimulant of the human mind.
Margaret OliphantI 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.
Margaret Oliphant