Elegance has a bad effect on my constitution.
Love scenes, if genuine, are indescribable; for to those who have enacted them the most elaborate description seems tame, and to those who have not, the simplest picture seems overdone.
Liberty must not be abused.
Money is a needful and precious thing.
To most the end comes as naturally and simply as sleep.
I make so many beginnings there never will be an end.
Mothers can forgive anything!
Madam de Stael pronounced architecture to be frozen music; so is statuary crystalized spirituality.
Fathers and mothers are too absorbed in business and housekeeping to study their children, and cherish that sweet and natural confidence which is a child’s surest safeguard, and a parent’s subtlest power.
I want to be great, or nothing. I won’t be a commonplace dauber, so I don’t intend to try any more.
It takes very little fire to make a great deal of smoke nowadays, and notoriety is not real glory.
Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one’s conquests.
Dolls are safe companions.
November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year.
And when they went away, leaving comfort behind, I think there were not in all the city four merrier people than the hungry little girls who gave away their breakfasts and contented themselves with bread and milk on Christmas morning.
Love and Loyalty If ever men and women are their simplest, sincerest selves, it is when suffering softens the one, and sympathy strengthens the other.
You may try your experiment for a week and see how you like it. I think by Saturday night you will find that all play and no work is as bad as all work and no play.
Woman work a great many miracles.
Mac looked up with the oddest of all his odd expressions.
Christmas won’t be Christmas without any presents.