Helen Hunt JacksonThinkers

Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.

October is the month of carnival of all the year, when Nature lets the wild earth go its way and spend whole seasons on a single day.

Pride is different from vanity in this: Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the last; and fast as it is driven from one field unfurls it in another, never admitting that there is a shade less honor in the second field than in the first, or in the third than in the second.

The Saint is one who mistakenly thinks to save their soul by making life a grave.

Vanity is different from pride in this: Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the last; and fast as it is driven from one field unfurls it in another, never admitting that there is a shade less honor in the second field than in the first, or in the third than in the second.