We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.

My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.

I love words; they are the quoits, the bows, the staves that furnish the gymnasium of the mind.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Wine and the sun will make vinegar without any shouting to help them.