Quotes from Frances Power Cobbe

Science is but a mere heap of facts, not a golden chain of truths, if we refuse to link it to the throne of God.

My great panacea for making society at once better and more enjoyable would be to cultivate greater sincerity.

I could discern clearly, even at that early age, the essential difference between people who are kind to dogs and people who really love them.

Love naturally reverses the idea of obedience, and causes the struggle between any two who truly love each other to be, not who shall command, but who shall yield.

It is a woman, and only a woman, — a woman all by herself, if she likes, and without any man to help her, — who can turn a house into a home.

He who does most to cure woman of her weakness, her frivolity, and her servility will likewise at the same stroke do most to cure man of his brutality, his selfishness and his sensuality.