adversity is so rough a teacher!

Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all.

Never ask a favor until you are drawing your last breath; and never forget one.

I am convinced that there are times in everybody's experience when there is so much to be done, that the only way to do it is to sit down and do nothing.

Why will parents use that expression? What right have you to have a favorite child?

O, girls! set your affections on cats, poodles, parrots or lap-dogs; but let matrimony alone. It's the hardest way on earth to getting a living.

Too much indulgence has ruined thousands of children; too much love not one.