The care of God for us is a great thing, if a man believe it at heart: it plucks the burden of sorrow from him.

I think that fortune watcheth o'er our lives, surer than we. But well said: he who strives will find his goals strive for him equally.

Money is far more persuasive than logical arguments.

Good and bad may not be dissevered; There is, as there should be, a commingling.

Oh, trebly blest the placid lot of those whose hearth foundations are in pure love laid, where husband's breast with tempered ardor glows, and wife, oft mother, is in heart a maid!

One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for.

There seems to be some pleasure for women in sick talk of one another.