We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.

But to most of us society shows not its face and eye, but its side and back. To stand in true relations with men in a false age isworth a fit of insanity, is it not?

We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim.

It is one of the biggest blessing that you can be stupid with your true friends and behave like you shame to do elsewhere

It is about your outlook towards life. You can either regret or rejoice.

Housekeeping is not beautiful; it cheers and raises neither the husband, the wife, nor the child; neither the host nor the guest;it oppresses women. A house kept to the end of prudence is laborious without joy; a house kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.

The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.