In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider it is hard to find rules without exception.

There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots.

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

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.

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?

I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to think of being married soon, and I should like everything to go on for a long while just as it is.

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral.