The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.

The soul awakes ... between two dim eternities - the eternal past, the eternal future.

God has always been to me not so much like a father as like a dear and tender mother.

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

Cathedrals do not seem to me to have been built. They seem, rather, stupendous growths of nature, like crystals, or cliffs of basalt.

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

The hand of benevolence is everywhere stretched out, searching into abuses, righting wrongs, alleviating distresses, and bringing to the knowledge and sympathies of the world the lowly, the oppressed, and the forgotten.