It is the way with half the truth amidst which we live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that are never born into sound.

"Heaven help us," said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.

There is so much to read and the days are so short! I get more hungry for knowledge every day, and less able to satisfy my hunger.

Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless-nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter.

Surely it is not true blessedness to be free of sorrow while there is sorrow and sin in the world. Sorrow is a part of love and love does not seek to throw it off.

We have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands.

My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake.