A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.

I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.

With the superciliousness of extreme youth, I put thirty-five as the utmost limit at which a man might fall in love without making a fool of himself.

Only mediocre people are at the best all the time.

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.

The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that. Its use is for life. Its aim is not beauty but goodness.

I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.