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

To us, from the beginning, Nature has been but a poor plastic thing, to be toyed with this way or that, as man happens to please his deity or not; to go to church or not; to say his prayers right or not; to travel on a Sunday or not.Was it possible for us in an instant to see Nature as she is-the flowing vestment of an unchanging reality?

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

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

Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it - but there is.

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.

We are a race of women that of old knew no fear and feared no death, and lived great lives and hoped great hopes; and if today some of us have fallen on evil and degenerate times, there moves in us yet the throb of the old blood.