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

As oil will find its way into crevices where water cannot penetrate, so song will find its way where speech can no longer enter.

Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.

Friends are discovered rather than made; there are people who are in their own nature friends, only they don't know each other; but certain things, like poetry, music, and paintings are like the Freemason's sign, they reveal the initiated to each other.

Can anybody tell what sorrows are locked up with our best affections, or what pain may be associated with every pleasure?

One of the greatest reforms that could be, in these reforming days ... would be to have women architects. The mischief with the houses built to rent is that they are all male contrivances.

The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.