Well, well, my boy, if good luck knocks at your door, don't you put your head out at window and tell it to be gone about its business, that's all.

I not only want to be loved, I want to be told that I'm loved.

Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat.

We cannot reform our forefathers.

A peasant can no more help believing in a traditional superstition than a horse can help trembling when be sees a camel.

When a workman knows the use of his tools, he can make a door as well as a window.

Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.