The most conventional customs cling to the table. Farmers who wouldn't drive a horse too hard expect pie three times a day.

Work is a sovereign remedy for all ills, and a man who loves to work will never be unhappy.

A political place with no power, only influence, is not to my taste.

We never can tell how our lives may work to the account of the general good, and we are not wise enough to know if we have fulfilled our mission or not.

I am succeeding quite well in my work and the future looks well. What special mission is God preparing me for? Cutting off all earthly ties and isolating me as it were.

The quality of life depends upon the ability of society to teach it's members how to live in harmony with their environment-def ined first as family, then the community, then the world and its resources.

One of the greatest faults of the women of the present time is a silly fear of things, and one object of the education of girls should be to give them knowledge of what things are really dangerous.