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.
Margaret OliphantIt is often easier to justify one's self to others than to respond to the secret doubts that arise in one's own bosom.
Margaret Oliphantevery generation has a conceit of itself which elevates it, in its own opinion, above that which comes after it.
Margaret OliphantOh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.
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