Who said “For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally…”?

“The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.”

“We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life's lived before it gets to the parlor door.”

“Few men have been admired of their familiars.”

“Every great house is full of haughty servants.”

“In the master there is a servant, in the servant a master.”

“If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.”

“Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.”

“What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?”

“Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.”

“Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.”

“If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.”