...the greatest tyrants over women are women.

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.

The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts; but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do?

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

Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.

The great quality of Dulness is to be unalterably contented with itself.

Which of us that is thirty years old has not had its Pompeii? Deep under ashes lies the life of youth--the careless sport, the pleasure and the passion, the darling joy.