"We are all prisoners of our own perceptions, but through writing, we can find the key to our freedom."

And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.Literary and Other Notes I, Woman’s World （November 1887）

The farmer is the only man in our economy who has to buy everything at retail, sell everything at wholesale, and pay the freight both ways.

"Every book is a journey, and every journey is a book."