In the economy of nature nothing is ever lost. I cannot belive that the soul of man shall prove the one exception

no one in the whole world knows all a man's bignesses and all his littlenesses as his wife does.

Of two evils, I always choose the lesser.

it takes the very wisest person there is to know when to talk, and when to keep still.

Is he well educated?" "Yes, I think so, as far as he's gone," I answered. "Of course he will go on being educated every day of his life, same as father. He says it is all rot about 'finishing' your education. You never do. You learn more important things each day.

If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose.

I know men and women. An honourable man is an honourable man, and a liar is a liar; both are born and not made. One cannot change to the other any more than that same old leopard can change its spots. After a man tells a woman the first untruth of that sort, the others come piling thick, fast, and mountain high.