The same quickness which makes a mind buoyant in gladness often makes it gentlest and most sympathetic in sorrow..

Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary institution, by which closely-pa….

If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you..

So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words..

Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad..

O, because I have had only that kind of benevolence which consists in lying on a sofa, and cursing the church and clergy for not being martyrs and co….

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong..

Can anybody tell what sorrows are locked up with our best affections, or what pain may be associated with every pleasure?.

I 'spect I growed. Don't think nobody never made me..

How, then, shall a Christian bear fruit? By efforts and struggles to obtain that which is freely given; by meditations on watchfulness, on prayer, on….

It is generally understood that men don't aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world..

Mountains are nature's testimonials of anguish. They are the sharp cry of a groaning and travailing creation. Nature's stern agony writes itself on t….

the Lord gives good many things twice over; but he don't give ye a mother but once..

All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobri….

Humankind above all is lazy..

I don't know as I am fit for anything and I have thought that I could wish to die young and let the remembrance of me and my faults perish in the gra….

the heaviest anguish often precedes a return tide of joy and courage..

Love needs new leaves every summer of life, as much as your elm-tree, and new branches to grow broader and wider, and new flowers to cover the ground..

At last I have come into a dreamland..

A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; while we shed our houses in America as easily as….

the delicacy that respects a friend's silence is one of the charms of life..