Sensitive people never like the fatigue of justifying their instincts.
The person who decides what shall be the food and drink of a family, and the modes of its preparation, is the one who decides, to a greater or less extent, what shall be the health of that family.
My vocation to preach on paper.
Come down here once, and use your eyes, and you will know more than we can teach you.
In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp...
Great as the planning were for the dinner, the lot was so contrived that not a soul in the house be supposed to be kept from the break of day ceremony of Blessing in the church.
It would be an incalculable gain to domestic happiness, if people would begin the concert of life with their instruments tuned to a very low pitch: they who receive the most happiness are generally they who demand and expect the least.
No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man. Life and death to him are haunted grounds, filled with goblin forms of vague and shadowy dread.
God has always been to me not so much like a father as like a dear and tender mother.
I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
Greek is the morning land of languages, and has the freshness of early dew in it which will never exhale.
O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.
General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.
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, or the ivy the rugged wall which it embraces.
It has always been a favorite idea of mine, that there is so much of the human in every man, that the life of any one individual, however obscure, if really and vividly perceived in all its aspirations, struggles, failures, and successes, would command the interest of all others.
That ignorant confidence in one’s self and one’s future, which comes in life’s first dawn, has a sort of mournful charm in experienced eyes, who know how much it all amounts to.
Friends are discovered rather than made; there are people who are in their own nature friends, only they don’t know each other; but certain things, like poetry, music, and paintings are like the Freemason’s sign, they reveal the initiated to each other.
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 confessors. One can see, you know, very easily, how others ought to be martyrs.