The great law of denial belongs to the powerful forces of life, whether the case be one of coolish baked beans, or an unrequited affection..

Life is moral responsibility..

What an immense power over life is the power of possessing distinct aims..

To exist as an advertisement of her husband's income, or her father's generosity, has become a second nature to many a woman who must have undergone,….

It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner... I felt that I had suddenly acquired value to m….

A perfect marriage is like a pure heart ... those who have it are fit to see God..

I read, with a kind of hopeless envy, histories and legends of people of our craft who "do not write for money." It must be a pleasant experience to ….

It is in the comprehension of the physically disabled, or disordered ... that we are behind our age.... sympathy as a fine art is backward in the gro….

A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignoranc….

A good short story is a work of art which daunts us in proportion to its brevity.... No inspiration is too noble for it; no amountof hard work is too….

Possibly the Creator did not make the world chiefly for the purpose of providing studies for gifted novelists; but if He had done so, we can scarcely….

The woman's personal identity is a vast undiscovered country -- with which Society has yet to acquaint itself, and by which it is yet to be revolutio….

Truth, like climate, is common property..

Out of my discomforts, which were small enough, grew one thing for which I have all my life been grateful, the formation of fixed habits of work..

What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and….

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds..

I believe in women; and in their right to their own best possibilities in every department of life. I believe that the methods ofdress practiced amon….

A literary woman's best critic is her husband..

... when one reflects on the books one never has written, and never may, though their schedules lie in the beautiful chirography which marks the ince….

Next to the love between man and his Creator, The love of one man and one woman, Is the loftiest and the most illusive ideal, That has been set be….

... to work, to work hard, to see work steadily, and see it whole, was the way to be reputable. I think I always respected a goodblacksmith more than….