Come down here once, and use your eyes, and you will know more than we can teach you.

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

Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.

A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.

The Negro is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world, and he has deep in his heart a passion for all that is splendid, rich and fanciful.

It would be an incalculable gain to domestic happiness, if people would begin the concert of life with their instruments tuned to a very low pitch: they who receive the most happiness are generally they who demand and expect the least.

Women's Day Women are the real architects of society.