-
Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition.
-
All my life long I have been sensible of the injustice constantly done to women. Since I have had to fight the world single-handed, there has not been one day I have not smarted under the wrongs I have had to bear, because I was not only a woman, but a woman doing a man's work, without any man, husband, son, brother or friend, to stand at my side, and to see some semblance of justice done me. I cannot forget, for injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.
-
When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.
-
That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.
-
In any adversity gold can find friends.
-
Kindness is always fashionable.
-
Forethought spares afterthought.
-
There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.
-
The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.
-
Genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.
-
Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.
-
... good and evil are so interwoven in life that every good, traced up far enough, is found to involve evil. This is the great mystery of life.
-
What is unreasonable is irrefutable.
-
... the evil that comes out of your lips, into your own bosom will fall.
-
The fruit of life is experience, not happiness.
-
A man nearly sixty is just as ready to suppose himself fascinating as a man of twenty.
-
... though mathematics may teach a man how to build a bridge, it is what the Scotch Universities call the humanities, that teach him to be civil and sweet-tempered.
-
One should not run on a new road.
-
Don’t fail through defects of temper and over-sensitiveness at moments of trial. One of the great helps to success is to be cheerful; to go to work with a full sense of life; to be determined to put hindrances out of the way; to prevail over them and to get the mastery. Above all things else, be cheerful; there is no beatitude for the despairing.
-
It is not that we have a soul, we are a soul.
-
What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves.
-
Laughter is always fatal to feeling.
-
There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
-
Injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.