"What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and g…"

"How, then, shall a Christian bear fruit? By efforts and struggles to obtain that which is freely given; by meditation…"

"I wrote what I did because as a woman, as a mother I was oppressed and broken-hearted, with the sorrows and injustice…"

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

"He was called a good fellow, — only a little lumpish, — and as he was brave and faithful, he rose in time to be a shi…"

"Most mothers are instinctive philosophers."

"Not only was he ignorant, but he had not even those conditions within himself which made knowledge possible. All that…"

"That ignorant confidence in one's self and one's future, which comes in life's first dawn, has a sort of mournful cha…"

"In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don't doubt many of them were much better worth wri…"

"A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; while we shed ou…"