Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth.

Life is richly worth living, with its continual revelations of mighty woe, yet infinite hope; and I take it to my breast.

I stand in the sunny noon of life. Objects no longer glitter in the dews of morning, neither are yet softened by the shadows of evening.

We cannot have expression till there is something to be expressed.

What a difference it makes to come home to a child!

Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet, and from it learn the all.

Who does not observe the immediate glow and security that is diffused over the life of woman, before restless or fretful, by engaging in gardening, building, or the lowest department of art? Here is something that is not routine--something that draws forth life towards the infinite.