children are made of eyes and ears, and nothing, however minute, escapes their microscopic observation..

[On disagreeing with her husband about his slave-holding:] I cannot give my conscience into the keeping of another human being or submit the actions ….

When marriage is what it ought to be, it is indeed the very happiest condition of existence..

Simplicity is a great element of good breeding..

Modesty is a diamond setting to female beauty..

I am persuaded that we are all surrounded by an atmosphere - a separate, sensitive, distinct envelope extending some distance from our visible person….

Christmas is a season of such infinite labour, as well as expense in the shopping and present-making line, that almost every woman I know is good for….

They frequently find the truth who do not seek it, they who do, frequently lose it..

American gentlemen are a cross between English and French men, and yet really altogether like neither. They are more refined and modest than Frenchme….

An actor's life is the shadow of a cloud, the echo of a sound, the memory of a dream, nothing come of nothing. The finest actor does not create, he i….

[On John Brown:] The poor wretch is hanged, but from his grave a root of bitterness will spring, the fruit of which at no distant day may be disunion….

I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and having seen what I have seen, to do all that lie….

The whole gamut of good and evil is in every human being, certain notes, from stronger original quality or most frequent use, appearing to form the w….

I want to do everything in the world that can be done..

Better trust all, and be deceived, And weep that trust and that deceiving, Than doubt one heart, that if believed Had blessed one's life with true be….

In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forc….

The Southern newspapers, with their advertisements of negro sales and personal descriptions of fugitive slaves, supply details of misery that it woul….

Though the Negroes are fed, clothed, and housed, and though the Irish peasant is starved, naked, and roofless, the bare name of freemen-the lordship ….

...I cannot help being astonished at the furious and ungoverned execration which all reference to the possibility of a fusion of the races draws down….

A good many causes tend to make good masters and mistresses quite as rare as good servants.... The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignor….

[When her husband said her earnings as a married woman belonged to him:] I cannot persuade myself that that which I invent - create, in fact - can be….