[On being deaf:] We must struggle for whatever may be had, without encroaching on the comfort of others.

it is the worst humiliation and grievance of the suffering, that they cause suffering.

School is no place of education for any children whatever till their minds are well put in action. This is the work which has to be done at home, and which may be done in all homes where the mother is a sensible woman.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchenthan witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe.

But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?

There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.