Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.

The dog is the god of frolic.

I never know how to worship until I know how to love; and to love I must have something that I can put my arms around, — something that, touching my heart, shall leave not the chill of ice, but the warmth of summer.

There is nothing that a New-Englander so nearly worships as an argument.

The highest order that was ever instituted on earth is the order of faith.

By religion I mean perfected manhood,--the quickening of the soul by the influence of the Divine Spirit.

There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother.