A fine morning's killing, ay! All their necks wrung - all dead birds! Once they could fly - fly and swim! Fly and swim! All dead now - and sold cheap in the open market!

It is not so difficult to win love as to keep it!

the world is not always kind to a clever woman even when she is visibly known to be earning her own living. There are always spiteful tongues wagging in the secret corners and byways, ready to assert that her work is not her own and and that some man is in the background, helping to keep her!

in my opinion, the Divine is revealed to all men once at least in their lives.

The Church is a system, - but whether it is as much founded on the teaching of our Lord, who was divine, as on the teaching of St. Paul, who was not divine, is a question to me of much perplexity.

What a fool cannot learn he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy.

nobody ever intends to be old.