When what is good comes of age, and is likely to live, there is reason for rejoicing.

We must not inquire too curiously into motives. they are apt to become feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air. We must keep the germinating grain away from the light.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

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.

What is opportunity to the man who cant use it?

We are apt to think it the finest era of the world when America was beginning to be discovered, when a bold sailor, even if he were wrecked, might alight on a new kingdom.

There are robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer.