I will to make life less bitter for a few within my reach.

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

But indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable; and we all know the difficulty of carrying out a resolve when we secretly long that it may turn out to be unnecessary. In such states of mind the most incredulous person has a private leaning towards miracle: impossible to conceive how our wish could be fulfilled, still - very wonderful things have happened!

It is necessary to me, not simply to be but to utter, and I require utterance of my friends.

Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life──the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within──can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.

You may try — but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you, and yet to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

In the man whose childhood has known caresses and kindness, there is always a fiber of memory that can be touched to gentle issues.