Work is not a curse, but drudgery is.
You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.
The truest self-respect is not to think of self.
Like a bird she seems to wear gay plumage unconsciously, as if it grew upon her.
The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.
There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother.