That acknowledgment of weakness which we make in imploring to be relieved from hunger and from temptation is surely wisely put in our daily prayer. Think of it, you who are rich, and take heed how you turn a beggar away.

There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.

Charlotte, having seen his body Borne before her on a shutter, Like a well-conducted person, Went on cutting bread and butter.

Society having ordained certain customs, men are bound to obey the law of society, and conform to its harmless orders.

She had not character enough to take to drinking, and moaned about, slip-shod and in curl-papers, all day.

He who meanly admires a mean thing is a snob--perhaps that is a safe definition of the character.

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