If there be any one whose power is in beauty, in purity, in goodness, it is a woman.

The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.

To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them - the whole leaf and root tribe.

Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. Nothing ever happens twice alike. The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects. The most tranquil house, with the most serene inhabitants, living upon the utmost regularity of system, is yet exemplifying infinite diversities.

Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may swell.

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

Many of our troubles are God dragging us, and they would end if we would stand upon our feet and go whither He would have us go.