Many an irritating fault, many an unlovely oddity, has come of a hard sorrow.

A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be. . . .

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

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.