Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.

When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that 's just the place and time that the tide'll turn.

I b'lieve in religion, and one of these days, when I've got matters tight and snug, I calculates to tend to my soul.

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.

If women want any rights they had better take them, and say nothing about it.

There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it.

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!