There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle.

I was born, for instance, incapable of appreciating music.

Women, more than men, are bound by tradition and authority. What the father, the brother, the doctor, and the minister have said has been received undoubtingly. Until women throw off this reverence for authority they will not develop.

I had only ordinary capacity but extraordinary persistency.

Besides learning to see, there is another art to be learned - not to see what is not.

The greatest object in educating is to give a right habit of study.