How foolish it would be if women did not obey men. The world would be all confusion!

it seems a silly kind o' business to bring us into the world at all for no special reason 'cept to take us out of it again just as folks 'ave learned to know us a bit and find us useful.

Nothing gives small minds a better handle for hatred than superiority.

religion is poetry, - poetry is religion.

I must not say what I truly think, or you will tell me I flatter you-but I can only speak what I feel-and very often I cannot even do that when the feeling is very deep.

the beginning of my history is - love. It is the beginning of every man and every woman's history, if they are only frank enough to admit it.

Fame, or notoriety, whichever that special noise may be called when the world like a hound 'gives tongue' and announces that the quarry in some form of genius is at bay, is apt to increase its clamor in proportion to the aloofness of the pursued animal.