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

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

Love needs new leaves every summer of life, as much as your elm-tree, and new branches to grow broader and wider, and new flowers to cover the ground.

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

I 'spect I growed. Don't think nobody never made me.

One part of the science of living is to learn just what our own responsibility is, and to let other people's alone.

One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.