to my thinking, it is more pitiable to bore than to be bored.

Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat.

Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid--too timid even to believe in the correctness of their own best promptings, when these would place them in a minority.

Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.

When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.

There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that-to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.

Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates.