Now we have no God. We have had two: the old God that our fathers handed down to us, that we hated, and never liked; the new one that we made for ourselves, that we loved; but now he has flitted away from us, and we see what he was made of - the shadow of our highest ideal, crowned and throned. Now we have no God.

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

A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. 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.

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

Love, smoke and a cough cannot long be hid!

They are called finishing-schools and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything.

A child sees everything, looks straight at it, examines it, without any preconceived idea.