It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops
Men and women are but children of a larger growth.
Nature repairs her ravages,--repairs them with her sunshine and with human labor.
Ignorance ... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.
A proud heart and a lofty mountain are never fruitful.
Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat.