But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!" Pride helps; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts— not to hurt others.

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.

Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.