If a boy is not trained to endure and to bear trouble, he will grow up a girl; and a boy that is a girl has all a girl's weakness without any of her regal qualities. A woman made out of a woman is God's noblest work; a woman made out of a man is His meanest.

I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.

One should go to sleep as homesick passengers do, saying, "Perhaps in the morning we shall see the shore.

Women are a new race, recreated since the world received Christianity.

In the morning, we carry the world like Atlas; at noon, we stoop and bend beneath it; and at night, it crushes us flat to the ground.

Affliction comes to us all, not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but to make us wise; not to make us despondent, but by its darkness to refresh us as the night refreshes the day; not to impoverish, but to enrich us

There is an army of waiters in this world.