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 Lord gives a good many things twice over, but he don't give ye a mother but once.
But it is often those who have least of all in this life whom He chooseth for the kingdom. Put thy trust in Him and no matter what befalls thee here, He will make all right hereafter.
The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
You've always stood it out again' me: now, I'll conquer ye, or kill ye!—one or t' other. I'll count every drop of blood there is in you, and take 'em, one by one, till ye give up!Tom looked up to his...
The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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,...
Every nation that carries in its bosom great and unredressed injustice has in it the elements of this last convulsion.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you 'til it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer never give up then for that is just the place and time that the tide wi...
His conversation was in free and easy defiance of Murray's Grammar, and was garnished at convenient intervals with various profane expressions, which not even the desire to be graphic in our account s...
Abraham Lincoln. When he met Stowe, it is claimed that he said, So you're the little woman that started this great war!
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.
There are some feelings so agitated and tumultuous, that they can find rest only by being poured into the bosom of Almighty love,—
He had been able to repress every disrespectful word; but the flashing eye, the gloomy and troubled brow, were part of a natural language that could not be repressed,-- indubitable signs, which showed...
But now what? Why, now comes my master, takes me right away from my work, and my friends, and all I like, and grinds me down into the very dirt! And why? Because, he says, I forgot who I was; he says,...
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...
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
There's a way you political folks have of coming round and round a plain right thing
It takes years and maturity to make the discovery that the power of faith is nobler than the power of doubt; and that there is a celestial wisdom in the ingenuous propensity to trust, which belongs to...