No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.

Human nature is above all things lazy.

We hear often of the distress of the negro servants, on the loss of a kind master; and with good reason, for no creature on God's earth is left more utterly unprotected and desolate than the slave in these circumstances.

For how imperiously, how coolly, in disregard of all one’s feelings, does the hard, cold, uninteresting course of daily realities move on! Still we must eat, and drink, and sleep, and wake again, - still bargain, buy, sell, ask and answer questions, - pursue, in short, a thousand shadows, though all interest in them be over; the cold, mechanical habit of living remaining, after all vital interest in it has fled.

The world has been busy for some centuries in shutting and locking every door through which a woman could step into wealth, except the door of marriage.

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

The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.