Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
From Harriet Beecher Stowe
I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.
No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Human nature is above all things lazy.
So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.
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