Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat; it turns timidity into fierce courage, and dreadless defiance into tremulous submission; it turns thoughtlessness into foresight, and yet stills all anxiety into calm content; it makes selfishness become self-denial, and gives even to hard vanity the glance of admiring love.

Education was almost entirely a matter of luck — usually of ill-luck — in those distant days.

That is the bitterest of all,--to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing.

I am influenced at the present time by far higher considerations and by a nobler idea of duty than I ever was when I held the Evangelical belief.

There are natures in which, if they love us, we are conscious of having a sort of baptism and consecration.

It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.

And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.