The frozen ocean... of Boston life.

Life is like a cup of tea, the sugar is all at the bottom!

Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.

Every life has its actual blanks, which the ideal must fill up, or which else remain bare & profitless forever.

The frozen ocean... of Boston life.

In Virgil's account of the good housewife, who rises early in order to measure out the work of the household, and in Solomon's description of the thrifty woman of his time, one sees the value set upon feminine industry and economy in times far removed from our own.

Many a woman will pass for elegant in a ballroom, or even at a court drawing room, whose want of true breeding would become evident in a chosen company.