Love is in all things a most wonderful teacher.

Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy.

For though we are perpetually bragging of it as our safety, it is nothing but a poor fringe on the mantle of the upper.

... I have read in your face, as plain as if it was a book, that but for some trouble and sorrow we should never know half the good there is about us.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.

Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day.

Let me see you ride a donkey over my green again, and as sure as you have a head upon your shoulders, I'll knock your bonnet off, and tread upon it!