How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.

Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.

If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?

There is no door at which the hand of woman has knocked for admission into a new field of toil but there have been found on the other side the hands of strong and generous men eager to turn it for her, almost before she knocks.

Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them.

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

[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 . . .