The master’s irresponsible power has no such bound.

Those that we love never alter, unless we cease to love them...

Maids must be wives and mothers to fulfill the entire and holiest end of woman’s being.

The plodding thrift and scrupulous integrity and long-winded patient industry of our business men of the last century are out of fashion in these “giddy-paced” times, and England is forgetting that those who make haste to be rich can hardly avoid much temptation and some sin.

An actor’s life is the shadow of a cloud, the echo of a sound, the memory of a dream, nothing come of nothing. The finest actor does not create, he is but a translator of another man’s work.

Better trust all, and be deceived, And weep that trust and that deceiving, Than doubt one heart, that if believed Had blessed one’s life with true believing.

[When her husband said her earnings as a married woman belonged to him:] I cannot persuade myself that that which I invent - create, in fact - can belong to anyone but myself! I wish that women could be dealt with, not mercifully, not compassionately, nor affectionately, but justly; it would be so much better - for the men.

A good many causes tend to make good masters and mistresses quite as rare as good servants.... The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not, of course, give them the feelings and manners of gentle folks, or in any way really raise them above the servants they employ, who are quite aware of this fact, and that the possession of wealth is literally the only superiority their employers have over them.

An actor's life is the shadow of a cloud, the echo of a sound, the memory of a dream, nothing come of nothing. The finest actor does not create, he is but a translator of another man's work.

When marriage is what it ought to be, it is indeed the very happiest condition of existence.