Money is a great help everywhere; - can't have too much, if you get it honestly.

The person who decides what shall be the food and drink of a family, and the modes of its preparation, is the one who decides, to a greater or less extent, what shall be the health of that family.

...the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.

Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.

Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes!

the Lord gives good many things twice over; but he don't give ye a mother but once.

O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!