intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.

The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.

It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.

the temperaments of children are often as oddly unsuited to parents as if capricious fairies had been filling cradles with changelings.

Sweet souls around us watch us still, press nearer to our side; Into our thoughts, into our prayers, with gentle helpings glide.

I b'lieve in religion, and one of these days, when I've got matters tight and snug, I calculates to tend to my soul.

The longest day must have its close — the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.