Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.

What is art? Nature concentrated.

All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist there can only be promise of the coming woman.

Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.

Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.