in America, far too large a portion of the diet consists of animal food. As a nation, the Americans are proverbial for the gross and luxurious diet w….

By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a d….

The hand of benevolence is everywhere stretched out, searching into abuses, righting wrongs, alleviating distresses, and bringing to the knowledge an….

Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow..

If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room..

I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to d….

Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes!.

The beautiful must ever rest in the arms of the sublime. The gentle needs the strong to sustain it, as much as the rock-flowers need rocks to grow on….

Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers..

Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education - if it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a la….

I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak... I hope every woman w….

...the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence..

There are in this world blessed souls, whose sorrows all spring up into joys for others; whose earthly hopes, laid in the grave with many tears, are ….

Prayer is a long rope with a strong hold..

We hear often of the distress of the negro servants, on the loss of a kind master; and with good reason, for no creature on God's earth is left more ….

Greek is the morning land of languages, and has the freshness of early dew in it which will never exhale..

God washes the eyes by tears unil they can behold the invisible land where tears shall come no more..

There are griefs which grow with years..

Once in an age God sends to some of us a friend who loves in us, not a false-imagining, an unreal character, but looking through the rubbish of our i….