The ship, built on one element, but designed to have its life in another, seemed an image of the soul, formed and fashioned with many a weary hammer-stroke in this life, but finding its true element only when it sails out into the ocean of eternity.

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

Prayer is a long rope with a strong hold.

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.

That ignorant confidence in one's self and one's future, which comes in life's first dawn, has a sort of mournful charm in experienced eyes, who know how much it all amounts to.

If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.