Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?

I don't feel sure about doing good in any way now; everything seems like going on a mission to a people whose language I don't know.

... we are most of us brought up in the notion that the highest motive for not doing a wrong is something irrespective of the beings who would suffer the wrong.

... it is seldom a medical man has true religious views--there is too much pride of intellect.

... happy husbands and wives can hear each other say the same thing over and over again without being tired.

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.

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.