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

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

O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!

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

We can make ourselves say the kind things that rise in our hearts and tremble on our lips - do the gentle and helpful deeds which we long to do and shrink back from; and little by little, it will grow easier - the love spoken will bring back the answer of love - the kind deed will bring back a kind deed in return.

Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty!

One part of the science of living is to learn just what our own responsibility is, and to let other people's alone.