The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like themselves.
Catharine Esther Beecher
How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.
Catharine Esther Beecher
As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is true and right.
Catharine Esther Beecher
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.