Occupation: Columnist Birth: July 9, 1811 Death: October 10, 1872
What a pity when editors review a woman's book, that they so often fall into the error of reviewing the woman instead..
Hoary-headed old Winter, I have had enough of you!.
Can anybody tell me why reporters, in making mention of lady speakers, always consider it to be necessary to report, fully and firstly, the dresses w….
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..
There are so many ready to write (poor fools!) for the honor and glory of the thing, and there are so many ready to take advantage of this fact, and ….
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..
The term 'lady' has been so misused, that I like better the old-fashioned term, woman..
Few husbands (and the longer I observe, the more I am convinced of the truth of what I am about to say, and I make no exception in favor of education….
Oh! to be a child again. My only treasures, bits of shell and stone and glass. To love nothing but maple sugar. To fear nothing but a big dog. To go ….
I want a human sermon. I don't care what Melchisedek, or Zerubbabel, or Kerenhappuk did, ages ago; I want to know what I am to do, and I want somebod….
A little oil makes machinery work easy..
Show me an 'easy person,' and I will show you a selfish one. Good-natured he may be; why not? since the disastrous consequences of his 'easiness' are….
Experience is an excellent doctor, though he never had a diploma..
To her, the name of father was another name for love..
The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach..
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 noth….
No crust so tough as the grudged bread of dependence..
To the Pilgrim Mothers, who not only had their full share of the hardships and privations of pioneer life but also had the Pilgrim Fathers to endure..
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 a….
Too much indulgence has ruined thousands of children; too much love not one..