"God grant that I may never live to be useless!"

"I do not believe that there is any woman in the world who has an equal share of both understanding and grace with my sister Martha."

"I do not think that I have ever spent an hour in my life, from the age of twenty-one to this day, without employing it in some useful way."

"To candid, reasonable men, I am not afraid to lay open what has been the course of my life."

"I am not an enemy to pleasure; but I am an enemy to sin."