The fatal flaw of gravity; when you are down, everything falls down on you.

Wealth, if not a mere flash in the pan, compels the wealthy to become wealthier.

Those who spend their strength in field and factory would rather hear that their emancipation is bound to come than that it is something to be hazardously purchased by struggle and sacrifice.

Slowly, with a look of intense concentration, he got up and advanced on me ... put out a front paw, and stroked my cheek as I used to stoke his chops. A human caress from a cat. I felt very meagre and ill-educated that I could not purr.

Idleness is righteous if it is comfortable. Uncomfortable idleness is sin & sinful waste.

I wish I could be a grandmother. It is wanton extravagance to have had a youth with no one to tell of it to when one grows old.

But what are wishes, compared with longings?