O, girls! set your affections on cats, poodles, parrots or lap-dogs; but let matrimony alone. It's the hardest way on earth to getting a living.

I am convinced that there are times in everybody's experience when there is so much to be done, that the only way to do it is to sit down and do nothing.

What a pity when editors review a woman's book, that they so often fall into the error of reviewing the woman instead.

To her, the name of father was another name for love.

Our domestic Napoleons, too many of them, give flattery, bonnets and bracelets to women, and everything else but - justice.

There are no little things. "Little things," so called, are the hinges of the universe.

I am getting sick of people. I am falling in love with things. They hold their tongues.

Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all.

The term 'lady' has been so misused, that I like better the old-fashioned term, woman.

I hate the word proper. If you tell me a thing is not proper, I immediately feel the most rabid desire to go 'neck and heels' into it.

The cream of enjoyment in this life is always impromptu. The chance walk; the unexpected visit; the unpremeditated journey; the unsought conversation or acquaintance.

No matter how dark it may feel, always remember, that somewhere beyond the darkest clouds the Sun is always shining.

The power of gradually losing all feeling of strangeness or astonishment, and finally being pleased at anything, is called the historical sense or historical culture.

One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.

People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does.

Be wary of the arrogant intellectual who comments from the stands without having played on the field.

Streets full of water. Please Advise.

Spite and ill-nature are among the most expensive luxuries in life.

Habits are like financial capital – forming one today is an investment that will automatically give out returns for years to come.

My theory is if you have a religion, it's a good one. Because some people don't have any at all.

And some that smile have in their hearts, I fear, millions of mischiefs.