Subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.

There's many a good bit o' work done with a sad heart.

History repeats itself.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.

A fine lady is a squirrel-headed thing, with small airs and small notions; about as applicable to the business of life as a pair of tweezers to the clearing of a forest.

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.