What is your religion? I mean-not what you know about religion but the belief that helps you most?

Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.

Teach love, for that is what you are.

Opinions: men's thoughts about great subjects. Taste: their thoughts about small ones: dress, behavior, amusements, ornaments.

The best part of a woman's love is worship; but it is hard to her to be sent away with her precious spikenard rejected, and her long tresses, too, that were let fall, ready to soothe the wearied feet.

To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.

The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.