I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.

The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.

It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.

Human nature is above all things lazy.

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

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.

A woman's health is her capital.

Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.

I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.

Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.

To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.

One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.

Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.

Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.

I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.

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.

Friendships are discovered rather than made.

Whipping and abuse are like laudanum; you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.

We should remember in our dealings with animals that they are a sacred trust to us from our Heavenly Father. They are dumb and cannot speak for themselves.

Concern for animals is a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer never give up then for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Never give up for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

He obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are and doing things as they ought to be done.

When you get in a tight place and everything goes against you until it seems as if you could not hold on a minute longer never give up then for that is just the place and time when the tide will turn.

In the gates of eternity the black band and the white hand hold each other with an equal clasp.

Gems in fact are a species of mineral flowers they are the blossoms of the dark hard mine and what they want in perfume they make up in durability.

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.

The longest way must have its close the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.

Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.

The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.

There is more done with pens than with swords.

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

The burning of rebellious thoughts in the little breast, of internal hatred and opposition, could not long go on without slight whiffs of external smoke, such as mark the course of subterranean fire.

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Sensitive people never like the fatigue of justifying their instincts.

So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.

It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.

I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream.

What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years.