I have never known my husband to approve any act of mine which I myself valued.

Every fallen woman represents a man as guilty as herself, who escapes human detection, but whose soul lies open before God.

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: / He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored.

Massachusetts women as a rule adhere too strongly to old-time conventions.

I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.

The greatest evils of society are goods that have refused to go on, but have sat down on the highway, saying to the world, "We stop here; do you stop also.

It is always legitimate to wish to rise above one's self, never above others.