Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, 'Yes, I am willing to attract, but to attract a little better kind of a man than any I yet behold

The child realizes to every man his own earliest remembrance, and so supplies a defect in our education, or enables us to live over the unconscious history with a sympathy so tender as to be almost personal experience.

The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

In spite of warnings, change rarely occurs until the status quo becomes more painful than change. People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

Every man contemplates an angel in his future self.

We must leave our pets at home, when we go into the street, and meet men on broad grounds of good meaning and good sense.