Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.