there are some people who never learn; indeed, few people learn by experience, so far as I have ever seen..

Terror of being found out is not always a preservative, it sometimes hurries on the act which it ought to prevent..

Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better..

The incomprehensibleness of women is an old theory, but what is that to the curious wondering observation with which wives, mothers, and sisters watc….

Laughing is not the first expression of joy. ... A person laughs in idleness, for fun, not for joy. Joy has nothing, nothing but the old way of tears..

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought..

Against the long years when family bonds make up all that is happiest in life, there must always be reckoned those moments of agitation and revolutio….

I scarcely remember any writer who has ever ventured to say that the half of the work of the world is actually accomplished by women; and very few hu….

Good works may only be beautiful sins, if they are not done in a true spirit..

Even in misery we love to be foremost, to have the bitter in our cup acknowledged as more bitter than that of others..

Many love me, but by none am I enough beloved..

Truly there is nothing in the world so blessed or so sweet as the heritage of children..

There is nothing more effectual in showing us the weakness of any habitual fallacy or assumption than to hear it sympathetically through the ears, as….

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?.

Spring cold is like the poverty of a poor man who has had a fortune left him - better days are coming..

Married people do stand up so for each other when you say a word, however they may fight between themselves..

All perfection is melancholy..