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?

Money is a great help everywhere; - can't have too much, if you get it honestly.

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

Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.

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.

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

It is generally understood that men don't aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world.