Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

The divine gift is ever the instant life, which receives and uses and creates, and can well bury the old in the omnipotency with which Nature decomposes all her harvest for recomposition.

But a compassion for that which is not and cannot be useful and lovely, is degrading and futile.

A wise writer will feel that the ends of study and composition are best answered by announcing undiscovered regions of thought, and so communicating, through hope, new activity to the torpid spirit.

That which we call sin in others is experiment for us.

An eminent teacher of girls said, "the idea of a girl's education, is, whatever qualifies them for going to Europe.

Don't be a cynic, and bewail and bemoan. Omit the negative propositions. Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. Set down nothing that will help somebody.