The nest may be constructed, so far as the sticks go, by the male bird; but only the hen can line it with moss and down!

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.

The time comes to every dog when it ceases to care for people merely for biscuits or bones, or even for caresses, and walks out of doors. When a dog really loves, it prefers the person who gives it nothing, and perhaps is too ill ever to take it out for exercise, to all the liberal cooks and active dog-boys in the world.

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.

It is in the faculty of noble, disinterested, unselfish love that lies the true gift and power of womanhood,--a power which makes us, not the equal of men (I never care to claim such equality), but their equivalents; more than their equivalents in a moral sense.

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