Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless-nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter.

There is so much to read and the days are so short! I get more hungry for knowledge every day, and less able to satisfy my hunger.

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

Education is an asset no man can take away.

There is no hour that has not its births of gladness and despair, no morning brightness that does not bring new sickness to desolation as well as new forces to genius and love. There are so many of us, and our lots are so different, what wonder that Nature's mood is often in harsh contrast with the great crisis of our lives?

Among all the many kinds of first love, that which begins in childish companionship is the strongest and most enduring: when passion comes to unite its force to long affection, love is at its spring-tide.

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.