I ’spect I growed. Don’t think nobody never made me.
Religion! Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend and turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phase of selfish, worldly society, religion?
I b’lieve in religion, and one of these days, when I’ve got matters tight and snug, I calculates to tend to my soul...
Rome is an astonishment!
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.