Holy and pure are the drops that fall, When the young bride goes from her father's hall; She goes unto love yet untried and new- She parts from love which hath still been true.

It is an easy thing to call names; any fool is equal to that ... and the weapon of vituperation is generally used by those who lack brains for argument or are upon the wrong side.

I have often noticed that spoiled, petted children, usually have very little love for their parents, or indeed for any one but themselves.

Horace Dinsmore was, like his father, an upright, moral man, who paid an outward respect to the forms of religion, but cared nothing for the vital power of godliness.

Good husbands make good wives.

Ah, what a sweetner of toil is love—love to a dear earthly parent, and still more love to Christ. There is no drudgery in the most menial employment where that is the motive power.

All of the monsters in my head were created by people who thought they could make me a porcelain doll marionette of their own design.

The team has come along slow but fast.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.

Nobody is listening to your telephone calls.

It is curiosity, quite right-a divine curiosity. A characteristic of the gods is curiosity.

It is amazing how a new child can refocus one's direction seconds after its birth. Everything falls into a feeling of 'rightness'.

Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so dam serious.

If the lift is broken, I'll just sit and wait for them to sort it out. I don't believe in friendly conversation or chit-chat.

When you're famous you kind of run into human nature in a raw kind of way. It stirs up envy, fame does.

I believe that the arts make indispensable contributions to our understanding.