Elizabeth Gaskell

The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.