Will you not covet such power as this, and seek such throne as this, and be no more housewives, but queens? There is no putting by that crown; queens you must always be; queens to your lovers; queens to your husbands and sons; queens of higher mystery to the world beyond. . . . But alas! you are too often idle and careless queens, grasping at majesty in the least things, while you abdicate it in the greatest.

Every great man is always being helped by everybody, for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

Curiosity is a gift, a capacity of pleasure in knowing, which if you destroy, you make yourself cold and dull.

This is the true nature of home - it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from all injury, but from all terror, doubt, and division.

God intends no man to live in this world without working, but it seems to me no less evident that He intends every man to be happy in his work.

Morality does not depend on religion.