Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea.

A priest can achieve great victories with an army of women at his command.

My intellect is a little way upon the wrong side of that narrow boundary-line between sanity and insanity.

Self-assertion may deceive the ignorant for a time; but when the noise dies away, we cut open the drum, and find it was emptiness that made the music.

There can be no reconciliation where there is no open warfare. There must be a battle, a brave boisterous battle, with pennants waving and cannon roaring, before there can be peaceful treaties and enthusiastic shaking of hands.

Paris is a mighty schoolmaster, a grand enlightener of the provincial intellect.

Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to hold herself within herself, and take no colour from the outer world.