It's a good thing to learn early that other people's opinions do not matter, unless they happen to be true..

all daughters, even when most aggravated by their mothers, have a secret respect for them. They believe perhaps that they can do everything better th….

Truth is no man's slave - but lies - what magnificent servants they make..

artists are exposed to great temptations: their eyes see paradise before their souls have reached it, and that is a great danger..

We cannot alter facts, but we can alter our ways of looking at them..

... can life be made undignified by any act of man?.

Jane had that happy disposition which would like to imagine that every one really wishes the well-being of his neighbour and struggles, though someti….

Feelings change facts..

hurt vanity is one of the cruelest of mortal wounds..

When we refuse to accept our limitations, Nature, who is a stern realist, pays us out..

Taboos on the human heart are more dangerous than any risk we run by using our emotions. Sensation is the life of man; it is his actual energy. To su….

People who talk of new lives believe there will be no new troubles..

A man whose every exertion is bent upon showing up the flaws in his wife's character must be at least partially responsible for some of them..

It is you men who make war! ... We, who have children, would never make it! Why should a woman be broken up in pain, to give her child life, only to ….

That a Jew is despised or persecuted is bad for him, of course-but far worse for the Christian who does it-for although persecuted he can remain a go….

In my early life, and probably even today, it is not sufficiently understood that a child's education should include at least a rudimentary grasp of ….

I am never at picnics. The ground was not meant to be sat upon in its raw state, I feel sure, and I prefer my food without either caterpillars or dra….

Life was a series of messes, and one spent one's time cleaning them up; if one had any heart at all one also gave a part of one's time to cleaning up….

The only creative power I know is that of what might roughly be called 'love'; not of course a sentimental love: a far more impersonal and less indiv….

A red-hot belief in eternal glory is probably the best antidote to human panic that there is..

Time indeed has very little to do with living except at its beginning or near its end..