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.

Our sex bears the disgrace not only of a great deal of genuine poltroonery, but also of much which is mere affectation.

If a woman be herself pure and noble-hearted, she will come into every circle as a person does into a heated room, who carries with him the freshness of the woods where he has been walking.

Morality may exist in an atheist without any religion, and in a theist with a religion quite unspiritual.

Every woman who has any margin of time or money to spare should adopt some one public interest, some philanthropic undertaking,or some social agitation of reform, and give to that cause whatever time and work she may be able to afford.

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.

Pleasures of the mind have this advantage,--they never cloy nor wear themselves out, but increase by employment.