Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.

What's your hurry?" Because now is the only time there ever is to do a thing in," said Miss Ophelia.

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Gems, in fact, are a species of mineral flowers; they are the blossoms of the dark, hard mine; and what they want in perfume, they make up in durability.

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred - that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

If women want any rights they had better take them, and say nothing about it.

it isn't mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.