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.Collection: Brother
... 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.Collection: Evil
Men can bear all things but good days.Collection: Good Day
the matrimonial shoe pinches me.Collection: Shoes
A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne; it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating.Collection: May
A man nearly sixty is just as ready to suppose himself fascinating as a man of twenty.Collection: Men
... 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.Collection: Sweet
Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.Collection: Spiritual
Be not too strict - too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all.Collection: East
We generally get the evil we expect.Collection: Evil
Once suspicion is aroused, every thing feeds it.Collection: Distrust
Love, like destiny, loves surprises.Collection: Destiny
Laughter is always fatal to feeling.Collection: Laughter
move not in your anger; it is like putting to sea in a tempest.Collection: Moving
Perhaps when the light of heaven shows us clearly the pitfalls and dangers of the earth road that led to the heavenly city, our sweetest songs of gratitude will be not for the troubles we have conquered, but for those we have escaped.Collection: Song
Injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.Collection: Injustice
When a man has calamity upon calamity the world generally concludes that he must be a very wicked man to deserve them. Perhaps the world is right; but it is also just possible that the world ... may be wrong.Collection: Men
Genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.Collection: Genius
the nighttime of the body is the daytime of the soul.Collection: Night
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.Collection: Being Alone
One should not run on a new road.Collection: Running
In any adversity gold can find friends.Collection: Adversity
the breed is more than the pasture. As you know, the cuckoo lays her eggs in any bird's nest; it may be hatched among blackbirds or robins or thrushes, but it is always a cuckoo. ... a man cannot deliver himself from his ancestors.Collection: Men
To take offence is a great folly, and to give offence is a great folly - I know not which is the greater.Collection: Giving
For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.Collection: Sorrow
Dreams are large possessions ... they are an expansion of life, an enlightenment, and a discipline. I thank God for my dream life; my daily life would be far poorer, if it wanted the second sight of dreams.Collection: Dream