It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

Doesn't this quote just call up feelings of comfort and home? Comparing friendship to the nest a bird lives in and builds with loving determination reminds me that having a solid relationship takes work and dedication. And yet, when you succeed in crafting a friendship, you can rest in the comfort it provides.

Awful Night! Ancestral mystery of mysteries.

It is never too late to be who you want to be.

The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality.

Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat; it turns timidity into fierce courage, and dreadless defiance into tremulous submission; it turns thoughtlessness into foresight, and yet stills all anxiety into calm content; it makes selfishness become self-denial, and gives even to hard vanity the glance of admiring love.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.