As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

Next to faith in God, is faith in labor.

A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.

Woman's power is over the affections. A beautiful dominion is hers; but she risks its forfeiture when she seeks to extend it.

Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.

To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes, to learn something of her choicest secrets, and to have a more intelligent interest awakened in the beautiful order of her works elsewhere.

Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.