As to the pure all things are pure, so the common mind sees far more vulgarity in others than the mind developed in genuine refinement.

A true friend is forever a friend.

Right gladly would He free them from their misery, but He knows only one way: He will teach them to be like himself, meek and lowly, bearing with gladness the yoke of His Father's will. This in the one, the only right, the only possible way of freeing them from their sin, the cause of their unrest.

But I begin to think the chief difficulty in writing a book must be to keep out what does not belong to it.

What a man is lies as certainly upon his countenance as in his heart, though none of his acquaintances may be able to read it. The very intercourse with him may have rendered it more difficult.

Only he knew that to be left alone is not always to be forsaken.

Oh, I believe that there is no away; that no love, no life, goes ever from us; it goes as He went, that it may come again, deeper and closer and surer, and be with us always, even to the end of the world.