One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.

A modern girls' school, equipped as scores are now equipped throughout the country, was of course not to be found in 1858, when I first became a school boarder, or in 1867, when I ceased to be one.

A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it.

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

There is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment.

Learn the lesson of your own pain--learn to seek God, not in any single event of past history, but in your own soul--in the constant verifications of experience, in the life of Christian love.

Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system.