Adelaide Anne Procter

No star is ever lost we once have seen, we always may be what we might have been.

I do not ask, O Lord, that life may be a pleasant road.

Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys. It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life.

If you're not having a good time, find something else that gives you some joy in life.

To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.