Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.
Money is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
It’s a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.
The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
Witness, eternal God! Oh, witness that, from this hour, I will do what one man can to drive out this curse of slavery from my land!
Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life’s undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room.
Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
Sweet souls around us watch us still, press nearer to our side; Into our thoughts, into our prayers, with gentle helpings glide.
Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
Of course, in a novel, people’s hearts break, and they die and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us.