It is difficult for woman to try to be anything good when she is not believed in.

Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans - which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi.

I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.

He was one of those men, and they are not the commonest, of whom we can know the best only by following them away from the marketplace, the platform, and the pulpit, entering with them into their own homes, hearing the voice with which they speak to the young and aged about their own hearthstone, and witnessing their thoughtful care for the everyday wants of everyday companions, who take all their kindness as a matter of course, and not as a subject for panegyric.

But, bless us, things may be lovable that are not altogether handsome, I hope?

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he's sure of losing.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.