O, ye who visit the distressed, do ye know that everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth one honest tear shed in real sympathy?

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

All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.

the heaviest anguish often precedes a return tide of joy and courage.

Greek is the morning land of languages, and has the freshness of early dew in it which will never exhale.

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

Get your evidences of grace by pressing forward to the mark, and not by groping with a lantern after the boundary lines.