Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be. . . .

How will you find good? It is not a thing of choice; it is a river that flows from the foot of the Invisible Throne and flows by the path of obedience.

To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.

There is no feeling, perhaps, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music,--that does not make a man sing or play the better.

In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction: a hand is put into theirs, which leads them forth gently towards a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward; and the hand may be a little child's.

You may try — but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you, and yet to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

I am open to conviction on all points except dinner and debts. I hold that the one must be eaten and the other paid.