We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

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.

The best travel is that which one can take by one's own fireside. In memory or imagination.

It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

When one is five-and-twenty, one has not chalk-stones at one's finger-ends that the touch of a handsome girl should be entirely indifferent.