We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they are about religion, politics, farming, trade, law, or medicine, they are the message of Christ, the maker of all things - the teacher of all truth.

I go at what I have to do as if there were nothing else in the world for me to do.

Do what thou dost as if the earth were heaven, and thy last day the day of judgment.

Love is sentimental measles.

The loveliest fairy in the world; and her name is Mrs Do as you would bed one by.

Better is old wine than new, and old friends like-wise.

What is the commonest, and yet the least remembered form of heroism? The heroism of an average mother. Ah! when I think of that broad fact I gather hope again for poor humanity, and this dark world looks bright, this diseased world looks wholesome to me once more, because, whatever else it is or is not full of, it is at least full of mothers.