 Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession. |
| Massachusetts women as a rule adhere too strongly to old-time conventions. |
| I take refuge in my books. |
| Marriage, like death, is a debt we owe to nature. |
| The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness. |
| Beneath all differences of doctrine or discipline there exists a fundamental agreement as to the simple, absolute essentials in religion. |
| While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear? |
| When the unwelcome little unborn shall have seen the light my brain will be lightened, and I shall have a clearer mind. Thank God that even this weary nine months shall come to an end and leave me in possession of my own body and my own soul. |
| I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past. |
| The frozen ocean... of Boston life. |
| God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature. |
| I shall stick to my resolution of writing always what I think no matter whom it offends. |
| Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy. |
| I am confirmed in my division of human energies. Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build. |
| Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom. |
| I was born 'neath a clouded star. |
| The blind must not only be fed and housed and cared for; they must learn to make thir lives useful to the community. |
| I never could be good when I was not happy. |
| I sometimes think God allows Great Britain to be unprincipled for the good of mankind. |
| How utterly are one's best thoughts invaded by this going out in society. |
