I’ll promise to think twice before I take any important step you seriously disapprove of.

To wheedle and coax is safer than to command.

What a fool you must be," said my head to my heart, or my sterner to my softer self.

If ever I am a mother I will zealously strive against this crime of over- indulgence. I can hardly give it a milder name when I think of the evils it brings.

It is a hard, embittering thing to have one's kind feelings and good intentions cast back in one's teeth.

Keep guard over your eyes and ears as the inlets of your heart, and over your lips as the outlets, lest they betray you in a moment of unwariness.

How odd it is that we so often weep for each other's distresses, when we shed not a tear for our own!