If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast..

Get your evidences of grace by pressing forward to the mark, and not by groping with a lantern after the boundary lines..

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone..

a true gentleman ... was characterized as the man that asks the fewest questions. This trait of refined society might be adopted into home-like in a ….

When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for t….

Let my soul calm itself, O Christ, in Thee. This is true..

Sweet souls around us watch us still, press nearer to our side; Into our thoughts, into our prayers, with gentle helpings glide..

We can make ourselves say the kind things that rise in our hearts and tremble on our lips - do the gentle and helpful deeds which we long to do and s….

Your little child is the only true democrat..

I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people's glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone..

The power of fictitious writing, for good as well as evil is a thing which ought most seriously to be reflected on. No one can fail to see that in ou….

There is more done with pens than with swords..

A day of grace is yet held out to us. Both North and South have been guilty before God; and the Christian Church has a heavy account to answer. Not b….

Cause I's wicked, - I is. I's mighty wicked, anyhow, I can't help it..

Just so sure as one puts on any old rag, and thinks nobody will come, company is sure to call..

People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it..

After all, let a man take what pains he may to hush it down, a human soul is an awful, ghostly, unquiet possession for a bad man to have. Who knows t….

Care and labor are as much correlated to human existence as shadow is to light..

The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry..

Money is a great help everywhere; - can't have too much, if you get it honestly..

In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don't doubt many of them were much better worth writing than the men's..