Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.

To eat bread is one thing; to love the precepts of Christ and resolve to obey them is quite another.

Self-trust is the first secret of success, the belief that if you are here the authorities of the universe put you here, and for cause, or with some task strictly appointed you in your constitution, and so long as you work at that you are well and successful

But your isolation must not be mechanical, but spiritual, that is, must be elevation.

The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.

God will not have his work made manifest by cowards

I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old. I have heard that whenever the name of man is spoken, the doctrine of immortality is announced; it cleaves to his constitution. The mode of it baffles our wit, and no whisper comes to us from the other side. But the inference from the working of intellect, hiving knowledge, hiving skill,--at the end of life just ready to be born,--affirms the inspirations of affection and of the moral sentiment.