Is he well educated?" "Yes, I think so, as far as he's gone," I answered. "Of course he will go on being educated every day of his life, same as father. He says it is all rot about 'finishing' your education. You never do. You learn more important things each day.

no one in the whole world knows all a man's bignesses and all his littlenesses as his wife does.

it takes the very wisest person there is to know when to talk, and when to keep still.

I don't so much mind the falling, but I do seem to select the hardest spots to light on.

The wages of sin are the hardest debts on earth to pay, and they are always collected at inconvenient times and unexpected places.

Do you know that being a stranger is the hardest thing that can happen to any one in all this world?

There never was a moment in my life, when I felt so in the Presence, as I do now. I feel as if the Almighty were so real, and so near, that I could reach out and touch Him, as I could this wonderful work of His, if I dared. I feel like saying to Him: 'To the extent of my brain power I realize Your presence, and all it is in me to comprehend of Your power. Help me to learn, even this late, the lessons of Your wonderful creations. Help me to unshackle and expand my soul to the fullest realization of Your wonders. Almighty God, make me bigger, make me broader!