Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth; and there is little truth we get so true as that which we find in fiction.

The fact is that sin is the most unmanly thing in God's world. You never were made for sin and selfishness. You were made for love and obedience.

Assertion of truths known and felt, promulgation of truth from the high platform of truth itself, declaration of faith by the mouth of moral conviction--this is the New Testament method, and the true one.

if have got my spindle and my distaff ready--my pen and mind--never doubting for an instant that God will send me flax.

The gentleman is solid mahogany; the fashionable man is only veneer.

A woman in love is a very poor judge of character.

Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility.