Woman has nothing but her affections,--and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.

Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.

In a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut.

She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.

There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.

That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.

Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.