If the world 's a vale of tears, Smile, till rainbows span it!

That larger vision is certain to make clear the value in our own lives of service to others.

Tailor's work--the finishing of men's outside garments--was the "trade" learned most frequently by women in [the 1820s and 1830s],and one or more of my older sisters worked at it; I think it must have been at home, for I somehow or somewhere got the idea, while I was a small child, that the chief end of woman was to make clothing for mankind.

There is something in the place where we were born that holds us always by the heart-strings.

I am willing to make any part of my life public, if it will help others.

A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.

Canst thou prophesy, thou little tree, What the glory of thy boughs shall be?