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.

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.

Love needs new leaves every summer of life, as much as your elm-tree, and new branches to grow broader and wider, and new flowers to cover the ground.

There is a great life-giving, warming power called Love, which exists in human hearts dumb and unseen, but which has no real life, no warming power, till set free by expression.

So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.

There is more done with pens than with swords.

In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.