Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.

I think reading a novel is almost next best to having something to do.

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

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.

For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it.

The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended.

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.