I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book.

If we really believed that those who are gone from us were as truly alive as ourselves, we could not invest the subject with such awful depth of gloom as we do. If we could imbue our children with distinct faith in immortality, we should never speak of people as dead, but passed into another world. We should speak of the body as a cast-off garment, which the wearer had outgrown; consecrated indeed by the beloved being that used it for a season, but of no value within itself.

Law is not law, if it violates the principles of eternal justice.

No music is so pleasant to my ears as that word-father.

Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.

Work! work! that is my unfailing cure for all troubles.

It is wonderful how shy even liberal ministers generally are about trusting people with the plain truth concerning their religion. They want to veil it in a supernatural haze. They are very reluctant to part with the old idea that God has given to Jews and Christians a peculiar monopoly of truth. It is a selfish view of God's government of the world, and it is time that we knew enough to outgrow it.