I protest against any absolute conclusion.

It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.

Nature repairs her ravages,--repairs them with her sunshine and with human labor.

The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence.

I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.

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

All writing seems to me worse in the state of proof than in any other form. In manuscript one's own wisdom is rather remarkable to one, but in proof it has the effect of one's private furniture repeated in the shop windows. And then there is the sense that the worst errors will go to press unnoticed!