People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes.

I have no courage to write much unless I am written to. I soon begin to think that there are plenty of other correspondents more interesting - so if you all want to hear from me you know the conditions.

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

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.

We have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands.

No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted.