Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat.
Of all forms of human error, prophesy is the most avoidable.
Miserliness is a capital quality to run in families; it's the safe side for madness to dip on.
Those bitter sorrows of childhood!-- when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless.
Mysterious haunts of echoes old and far, The voice divine of human loyalty.
I hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great religion and no great freedom that has not done it, in the beginning.