We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his love felt through ours.

The best part of a woman's love is worship; but it is hard to her to be sent away with her precious spikenard rejected, and her long tresses, too, that were let fall, ready to soothe the wearied feet.

If you are not proud of your cellar, there is no thrill of satisfaction in seeing your guest hold up his wineglass to the light and look judicial.

She thought it was part of the hardship of her life that there was laid upon her the burthen of larger wants than others seemed to feel – that she had to endure this wide hopeless yearning for that something, whatever it was, that was greatest and best on this earth.

Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!

I think any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it.

That golden sky, which was the doubly blessed symbol of advancing day and of approaching rest.