“Success for a woman means absolute surrender, in whatever direction. Whether she paints a picture, or loves a man, there is no division of labor possible in her economy. To the attainment of any en...”

“Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.”

“My wife and I said good-bye the next morning in a little sheltered place among the lumber on the wharf; she was one of your women who never like to do their crying before folks.She climbed on the p...”

“What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice the dress the look the very motions of a person define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.”

“The great law of denial belongs to the powerful forces of life whether the case be one of coolish baked beans or an unrequited affection.”

“It is not the straining for great things that is most effective it is the doing the little things the common duties a little better and better.”

“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not de...”

“My interpretation can only be as inerrant as I am, and that's good to keep in mind.”

“When you translate the Bible with excessive literalism, you demythologize it. The possibility of a convincing reference to the individual's own spiritual experience is lost. (111)”

“The wind that blows the ship that goes And the lass that loves a sailor.”

“As I've grown - dare I say it - older, I had hopes of indulging my dreams of being a sailor.”

“They that go down to the sea in ships that do business in great waters these see the works of the Lord and his wonders in the deep.”

“There are no whores in Scaithes Ebb, or none that consider themselves as such, although there have always been many women who, if pressed, would describe themselves as much-married, with one husban...”

“The sea, perhaps because of its saltiness, roughens the outside but keeps sweet the kernel of its servants' soul.”