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

Somehow even a popular fallacy has an aspect of truth when it suits one's own case.

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.

Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to be driven out of your senses with thinking which of two things you ought to do than to do nothing whatever, and be utterly uninteresting to all the world.

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

Even in misery we love to be foremost, to have the bitter in our cup acknowledged as more bitter than that of others.

Good works may only be beautiful sins, if they are not done in a true spirit.