"Talking is like playing on the harp there is as much in laying the hand on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging them to bring out their music."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
"The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city."
"When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow I look back."
"Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other."
"Life is a great bundle of little things."
"Take your needle my child and work at your pattern it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that one stitch at a time taken patiently and the pattern will come out all right like embroide..."
"Don't be consistent but be simply true."
"Rough work iconoclasm but the only way to get at the truth."
"Nature is in earnest when she makes a woman."
"Man has his will - but woman has her way."