Art is not a plaything, but a necessity, and its essence, form, is not a decorative adjustment, but a cup into which life can be poured and lifted to the lips and be tasted.

Yes,” said Mamma, “this is the worst of life, that love does not give us common sense but is a sure way of losing it. We love people, and we say that we are going to do more for them than friendship, but it makes such fools of us that we do far less, indeed sometimes what we do could be mistaken for the work of hatred.

The case against religion is the responsibility of God for the sufferings of mankind, which makes it impossible to believe the good things said about Him in the Bible, and consequently to believe anything it says about Him.

She saw she had fallen into the hands of one of those doctors who have strayed too far from apparent in the direction of the soul.

Whatever happens, never forget that people would rather be led to perdition by a man, than to victory by a woman.

The choice between law and justice is an easy one for courageous minds.

I always have beauty around me, for I have but to go to my piano, and trace one of the million designs that have been made by my masters.