The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.

Starting a long way off the true point, and proceeding by loops and zigzags , we now and then arrive just where we ought to be.

Animals are such agreeable friends.

May every soul that touches mine - be it the slightest contact - get there from some good; some little grace; one kindly thought; one aspiration yet unfelt; one bit of courage for the darkening sky; one gleam of faith to brave the thickening ills of life; one glimpse of brighter skies beyond the gathering mists - to make this life worthwhile.

It is better sometimes not to follow great reformers of abuses beyond the threshold of their homes.

There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to have a discussion coolly waived when you feel that justice is all on your own side is even more exasperating in marriage than in philosophy.

To judge wisely, we must know how things appear to the unwise.