"The Lord gives a good many things twice over, but he don't give ye a mother but once."
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
"If ever you have had a romantic, uncalculating friendship, - a boundless worship and belief in some hero of your soul, - if ever you have so loved, that all cold prudence, all selfish worldly consider..."
"In the midst of life we are in death,'" said Miss Ophelia."
"...the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence."
"An atmosphere of sympathetic influence encircles every human being; and the man or woman who feels strongly, healthily and justly, on the great interests of humanity, is a constant benefactor to the h..."
"Still waters run deepest, they used to tell me."
"Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes!"
"Sobs, heavy, hoarse and loud, shook the chairs, and great tears fell through his fingers on the floor - just such tears, sir, as you dropped into the coffin where lay your first-born son; such tears, ..."
"And though it be not so in the physical, yet in moral science that which cannot be understood is not always profitless. For the soul awakes, a trembling stranger, between two dim eternities,—the etern..."
"Soon after the completion of his college course, his whole nature was kindled into one intense and passionate effervescence of romantic passion. His hour came,—the hour that comes only once; his star ..."