The hand of benevolence is everywhere stretched out, searching into abuses, righting wrongs, alleviating distresses, and bringing to the knowledge and sympathies of the world the lowly, the oppressed, and the forgotten.

It takes years and maturity to make the discovery that the power of faith is nobler than the power of doubt; and that there is a celestial wisdom in the ingenuous propensity to trust, which belongs to honest and noble natures.

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

Sensitive people never like the fatigue of justifying their instincts.

It is no merit in the sorrowful that they weep, or to the oppressed and smothering that they gasp and struggle, not to me, that I must speak for the oppressed - who cannot speak for themselves.

Just so sure as one puts on any old rag, and thinks nobody will come, company is sure to call.

A ship is a beauty and a mystery wherever we see it.