What a joy is there in a good book, writ by some great master of thought, who breaks into beauty as in summer the meadow into grass and dandelions and violets, with geraniums and manifold sweetness.

Justice is the idea of God, the ideal of man, the rule of conduct writ in the nature of mankind.

What sad faces one always sees in the asylums for orphans! It is more fatal to neglect the heart than the head.

I believe in the admission of women to the full rights of citizenship and share in government, on the express grounds that few women keep house so badly or with such wastefulness as chancellors of the exchequer keep the state.

Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.

I look through the grave into heaven.

Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.