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.

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.

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.

It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand.

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

the brain works better if the hand works too.

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