There's something so beautiful in coming on one's very inmost thoughts in another. In one way it is one of the greatest pleasures one has.

There was never a great man who had not a great mother.

The secret of success is concentration ... Taste everything a little, look at everything a little; but live for one thing.

No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.

For those of us who have a ground of knowledge which we cannot transmit to outsiders, it is perhaps more profitable to act fearlessly than to argue.

[Finishing schools] are nicely adapted machines for experimenting on the question, "Into how little space a human being can be crushed?" I have seen some souls so compressed that they would have fitted into a small thimble, and found room to move . . .

I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice, it would start me up to a moment's life again.