People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.

Primary (the LDS Church's Sunday school for children) is where you go to do with somebody else's mother the things you would do with your own mother if she weren't so busy teaching Primary.

It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.

Well, I aren't like a bird-clapper, forced to make a rattle when the wind blows on me. I can keep my own counsel when there's no good i' speaking.

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

Surely there was something taught her by this experience of great need; and she must be learning a secret of human tenderness and long-suffering, that the less erring could hardly know?

The wit of a family is usually best received among strangers.