Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

What a fool is he who locks his door to keep out spirits, who has in his own bosom a spirit he dares not meet alone; whose voice, smothered far down, and piled over with mountains of earthliness, is yet like the forewarning trumpet of doom!

Women are the true modelers of social order.

Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.

General rules will bear hard on particular cases.

I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people's glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.

The same quickness which makes a mind buoyant in gladness often makes it gentlest and most sympathetic in sorrow.