There is not a single heart but has its moments of longing.

As plants take hold, not for the sake of staying, but only that they may climb higher, so it is with men. By every part of our nature we clasp things above us, one after another, not for the sake of remaining where we take hold, but that we may go higher.

Selfishness at the expense of others happiness is demonism.

The world is to be cleaned by somebody, and you are not called of God if you are ashamed to scrub.

The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

The elms of New England! They are as much a part of her beauty as the columns of the Parthenon were the glory of its architecture.