My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.

Love, smoke and a cough cannot long be hid!

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.

Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them. You may dam up the fountain of water, and make it a stagnant marsh, or you may let it run free and do its work; but you cannot say whether it shall be there; it is there. And it will act, if not openly for good, then covertly for evil; but it will act.

No woman has the right to marry a man if she has to bend herself out of shape for him. She might wish to, but she could never be to him with all her passionate endeavor what the other woman could be to him without trying. Character will dominate over all and will come out at last.

A word may become so defiled by bad use that it will take a century before it can be purifed, and brought into use again.

Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.