Love and Loyalty If ever men and women are their simplest, sincerest selves, it is when suffering softens the one, and sympathy strengthens the other.

Go out more, keep cheerful as well as busy, for you are the sunshine-maker of the family, and if you get dismal there is no fair weather.

Back to him she would never go, but in her lonely life still lived the sweet memory of that happy time when she believed in him and he was all in all to her.

Now we are expected to be as wise as men who have had generations of all the help there is, and we scarcely anything.

where I wholly love I wholly trust.

... for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to be resisted.

I shall keep my book on the table here, and read a little every morning as soon as I wake, for I know it will do me good, and help me through the day.