The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.

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

Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes!

...the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.

General rules will bear hard on particular cases.

Praise is sunshine; it warms, it inspires, it promotes growth; blame and rebuke are rain and hail; they beat down and bedraggle, even though they may at times be necessary.

God has always been to me not so much like a father as like a dear and tender mother.