“There are women to whom nature has granted the gift of silent emotion. They have mobile faces, changeful eyes, soft lips, which express joy or desolation naturally, and with the charm of perfect simplicity and truth.”

Observing the quiet eloquence of certain women · Prose fiction

• Emotion
• Simplicity
• Women

“If you set out to do a good deed, you may do a hundred small kindnesses on the way.”

On how intentional goodness multiplies into many ordinary acts of care · Novel, Stepping Stones (1880)

• Action
• Charity
• Kindness