The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self.

I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a willful sin between myself and God.

I think I dislike what I don't like more than I like what I like.

The tread Of coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcher Who holds her heart and waits to hear them pause, And hears them never pause, but pass and die.

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

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.