One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.

Certainly the determining acts of her life were not ideally beautiful. They were the mixed result of young and novel impulse struggling amidst the conditions of an imperfect social state, in which great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

It is a wonderful subduer-this need of love, this hunger of the heart.

The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth.

Does any one suppose that private prayer is necessarily candid--necessarily goes to the roots of action! Private prayer is inaudible speech, and speech is representative: who can represent himself just as he is, even in his own reflections?

... the fallibility of human brains is in nothing more obvious than in proof reading.

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.