One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.

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.

The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality.

Human experience is usually paradoxical.

... it is because sympathy is but a living again through our own past in a new form, that confession often prompts a response of confession.

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.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.