We men of study, whose heads are in our books, have need to be straightly looked after! We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.

The washing of dishes does seem to me the most absurd and unsatisfactory business that I ever undertook. If, when once washed, they would remain clean for ever and ever (which they ought in all reason to do, considering how much trouble it is), there would be less occasion to grumble; but no sooner is it done, than it requires to be done again. On the whole, I have come to the resolution not to use more than one dish at each meal.

When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it.

Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.

Labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionately brutalized.

Strength is incomprehensible by weakness, and, therefore, the more terrible.

She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.