It’s rather a strong check to one’s self-complacency to find how much of one’s right doing depends on not being in want of money.

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.

Them as ha' never had a cushion don't miss it.

I am not imposed upon by fine words; I can see what actions mean.

People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.

How will you find good? It is not a thing of choice; it is a river that flows from the foot of the Invisible Throne and flows by the path of obedience.

Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat; it turns timidity into fierce courage, and dreadless defiance into tremulous submission; it turns thoughtlessness into foresight, and yet stills all anxiety into calm content; it makes selfishness become self-denial, and gives even to hard vanity the glance of admiring love.