God waits only the separation of spirit from flesh to crown us with a full reward. Why, then, should we ever sink overwhelmed with distress, when life is so soon over, and death is so certain an entrance to happiness -- to glory?

As far as my experience of matrimony goes -- I think it tends to draw you out of, and away from yourself.

It is good to be attracted out of ourselves, to be forced to take a near view of the sufferings, the privations, the efforts, the difficulties of others.

The human and fallible should not arrogate a power with which the divine and perfect alone can be safely intrusted.

Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes.

Whatever my powers--feminine or the contrary--God had given them, and I felt resolute to be ashamed of no faculty of his bestowal.

Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.