No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you.

in certain crises direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy.

We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one's life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.

It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops

What people do who go into politics I can't think; it drives me almost mad to see mismanagement over only a few hundred acres.

Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.

As soon as we lay ourselves entirely at His feet, we have enough light given us to guide our own steps; as the foot-soldier who hears nothing of the councils that determine the course of the great battle he is in, hears plainly enough the word of command that they must themselves obey.