How, then, shall a Christian bear fruit? By efforts and struggles to obtain that which is freely given; by meditations on watchfulness, on prayer, on action, on temptation, and on dangers? No, there must be a full concentration of the thoughts and affections on Christ; a complete surrender of the whole being to him; a constant looking to him for grace.

I make no manner of doubt that you threw a very diamond of truth at me, though you see it hit me so directly in the face that it wasn't exactly appreciated, at first.

the delicacy that respects a friend's silence is one of the charms of life.

Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!

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

I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people's glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.

It would be an incalculable gain to domestic happiness, if people would begin the concert of life with their instruments tuned to a very low pitch: they who receive the most happiness are generally they who demand and expect the least.