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

True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love's sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.

Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!

If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.

Women are the true modelers of social order.

a true gentleman ... was characterized as the man that asks the fewest questions. This trait of refined society might be adopted into home-like in a far greater degree than it is, and make it far more agreeable.

Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes!