You know I have duties──we both have duties──before which feeling must be sacrificed.

Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.

She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception.

Go forward with joyful confidence.

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

It is a vain thought to flee from the work that God appoints us, for the sake of finding a greater blessing, instead of seeking it where alone it is to be found - in loving obedience.

There was no gleam, no shadow, for the heavens, too, were one still, pale cloud; no sound or motion in anything but the dark river that flowed and moaned like an unresting sorrow.