13 quotes
There isn't a text in the Bible better worth keeping always in mind than that one, 'Judge not, that ye be not judged.' .
Elsie Venner (1859)
It will take you a hundred or two more years to get decently humanized, after so many centuries of de-humanizing celibacy.
Elsie Venner (1859)
Leverage is everything,—was what I used to say;—don't begin to pry till you have got the long arm on your side.
Elsie Venner (1859)
What a miserable thing it is to be poor.
Elsie Venner (1859)
If a man has a genuine, sincere, hearty wish to get rid of his liberty, if he is really bent upon becoming a slave, nothing can stop him.
Elsie Venner (1859)
Treat bad men exactly as if they were insane.
Elsie Venner (1859)
We are very shy of asking questions of those who know enough to destroy with one word the hopes we live on.
Elsie Venner (1859)
Be polite and generous, but don't undervalue yourself. You will be useful, at any rate; you may just as well be happy, while you are about it.
Elsie Venner (1859)
All of us love companionship and sympathy; some of us may love them too much. All of us are more or less imaginative in our theology.
Elsie Venner (1859)
We forget that weakness is not in itself a sin. We forget that even cowardice may call for our most lenient judgment, if it spring from innate infirmity.
Elsie Venner (1859)
The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.
Elsie Venner (1859)
You inherit your notions from a set of priests that had no wives and no children, or none to speak of, and so let their humanity die out of them.
Elsie Venner (1859)
What's the use in our caring about hard words after this,—'atheists,' heretics, infidels, and the like? They're, after all, only the cinders picked up out of those heaps of ashes round the stumps of the old stakes where they used to burn men, women, and children for not thinking just like other folks.
Elsie Venner (1859)