Nothing ought to be told, I think that does not interest or kindle one's own mind in looking back; it is the only condition on which one can hope to interest or kindle other minds.

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.

It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.

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.

We enjoy the great prophets of literature most when we have not yet lived enough to realize all they tell us.

Other trades may fail. The agitator is always sure of his market.