...the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.

My vocation to preach on paper.

One of the greatest reforms that could be, in these reforming days ... would be to have women architects. The mischief with the houses built to rent is that they are all male contrivances.

It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.

intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.

Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.

Friends are discovered rather than made; there are people who are in their own nature friends, only they don't know each other; but certain things, like poetry, music, and paintings are like the Freemason's sign, they reveal the initiated to each other.