“Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.”
Anger“You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.”
Best“Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.”
Anger“Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.”
Travel“There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.”
Great“It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.”
Gardening“We must not sit still and look for miracles up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.”
Faith“And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.”
Strength“Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.”
Family“The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.”
God“Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.”
Great“The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.”
History“All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.”
Dad“In every parting there is an image of death.”
Death“It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.”
Good“Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.”
Truth“Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions they pass no criticisms.”
Pet“Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.”
Failure“I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.”
Home“The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.”
Freedom“A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.”
Great“Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.”
Jealousy