Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.

Say "I love you" to those you love. The eternal silence is long enough to be silent in, and that awaits us all.

He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself.

When a homemaking aunt scolds a niece for following her evangelistic passion instead of domestic pursuits, her reply is interesting. First, she clarifies that God's individual call on her doesn't condemn those in more conventional roles. Then, she says she can no more ignore the cry of the lost than her aunt can the cry of her child.

Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.

A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.