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

...and clung more closely to the dear human love, from which our Father never means us to be weaned, but through which He draws us closer to Himself.

But many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. That does not lessen their beauty.

Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself." -

. . . for when women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole.

politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names

There was a good deal of laughing and kissing and explaining, in the simple, loving fashion which makes these home-festivals so pleasant at the time, so sweet to remember long afterward, and then all fell to work.