Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.

Women are safer in perilous situations and emergencies than men, and might be still more so if they trusted themselves more confidingly to the chivalry of manhood.

We do ourselves wrong, and too meanly estimate the holiness above us, when we deem that any act or enjoyment good in itself, is not good to do religiously.

New England is quite as large a lump of earth as my heart can really take in.

Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.

We men of study, whose heads are in our books, have need to be straightly looked after! We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.

Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.