if I inflict wounds, I heal them.

Faith creates the virtues in which it believes.

. . . this life is a perpetual chequer-work of good and evil, pleasure and pain. When in possession of what we desire, we are only so much the nearer losing it; and when at a distance from it, we live in expectation of enjoying it again.

Death makes us all equal.

We must always live in hope; without that consolation there would be no living.

Occupation is the best safeguard for women under all circumstances--mental or physical, or both. Cupid extinguishes his torch in the atmosphere of industry.

It is a disgraceful thing to be ignorant.