What courage and patience are wanted for every life that aims to produce anything!

College mostly makes people like bladders-just good for nothing but t'hold the stuff as is poured into 'em.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light I can command must be concentrated on this particular web, and not dispersed over that tempting range of relevancies called the universe.

It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self- estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

That golden sky, which was the doubly blessed symbol of advancing day and of approaching rest.

We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.