Sarah Stickney Ellis

Life is not all incident; it has its intervals of thought, as well as action—of feeling—of endurance; and in order to reflect, and profit by these, it is sometimes necessary to sit down as it were upon the sand-hills of the desert, and …

To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life.

Those who live on vanity must not unreasonably expect to die of mortification.