Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly

I always think the flowers can see us, and know what we are thinking about.

It's them as take advantage that get advantage I' this world, I think: folks have to wait long enough afore it's brought to 'em.

If people will be censors, let them weigh their words. I mean that the words were unfair by that disproportionateness of the condemnation, which everybody with some conscience must feel to be one of the great difficulties in denouncing a particular person. Every unpleasant dog is only one of many, but we kick him because he comes in our way, and there is always some want of distributive justice in the kicking.

That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great weariness or a great danger-not to be interfered with by speech or action which would distract the sensations from the fresh enjoyment of repose.

To fear the examination of any proposition apears to me an intellectual and a moral palsy that will ever hinder the firm grasping of any substance whatever.

It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.