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

A woman's heart is just like a lithographer's stone; what is once written upon it cannot be rubbed out.

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.

What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables.

Those we love can but walk down to the pier with us - the voyage we must make alone.

She lived in her past life — every letter seemed to recall some circumstance of it. How well she remembered them all! His looks and tones, his dress, what he said and how — these relics and remembrances of dead affection were all that were left her in the world.