Some civilized women would lose half their charm without dress and some would lose all of it.

To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity.

The human being places sexual intercourse above all other joys, but leaves it out of his heaven.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

To us, our house was not unsentient matter -- it had a heart, and a soul, and eyes to see us with; and approvals and solicitudes and deep sympathies; it was of us, and we were in its confidence, and lived in its grace and in the peace of its benediction.

isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.