I love words; they are the quoits, the bows, the staves that furnish the gymnasium of the mind.

I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a willful sin between myself and God.

Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.

It's no trifle at her time at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution.

Miserliness is a capital quality to run in families; it's the safe side for madness to dip on.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.