An intelligent wife can make her home, in spite of exigencies, pretty much what she pleases.

He was always thinking of his brother's soul, or of the souls of those who differed with him in opinion: it is a sort of comfort which many of the serious give themselves.

You must not judge hastily or vulgarly of Snobs: to do so shows that you are yourself a Snob.

...the greatest tyrants over women are women.

Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.

So they pass away: friends, kindred, the dearest-loved, grown people, aged, infants. As we go on the down-hill journey, the mile-stones are grave-stones, and on each more and more names are written; unless haply you live beyond man's common age, when friends have dropped off, and, tottering, and feeble, and unpitied, you reach the terminus alone.

What woman, however old, has not the bridal-favours and raiment stowed away, and packed in lavender, in the inmost cupboards of her heart?