“What can promote innocent mirth, and I may say virtue, more than a good riddle?”

“But a good wife—a good unworldly woman—may really help a man, and keep him more independent.”

“Few things hold the perception more thoroughly captive than anxiety about what we have got to say”

“I think I dislike what I don't like more than I like what I like.”

“eh, there's trouble i' this world, and there's things as we can niver make out the rights on. And all we've got to do is to trusten - Master Marner, to do the right thing as fur as we know, and to trusten. For if us as knows so little can see a bit o' good and rights, we may be sure as there's a good and a rights bigger nor what we can know.”

“What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?”

“When a homemaking aunt scolds a niece for following her evangelistic passion instead of domestic pursuits, her reply is interesting. First, she clarifies that God's individual call on her doesn't condemn those in more conventional roles. Then, she says she can no more ignore the cry of the lost than her aunt can the cry of her child.”