Every great religion is, in truth, a concentration of great ideas, capable, as all ideas are, of infinite expansion and adaptation.

All things change, creeds and philosophies and outward systems - but God remains.

praise is a great tonic, and helps most people to do their best.

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.

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

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