God has always been to me not so much like a father as like a dear and tender mother.

Of course, in a novel, people's hearts break, and they die and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us.

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

O, ye who visit the distressed, do ye know that everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth one honest tear shed in real sympathy?

Your little child is the only true democrat.

Prayer is a long rope with a strong hold.

It is always our treasure that the lightning strikes.