If women want any rights they had better take them, and say nothing about it.

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.

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

I b'lieve in religion, and one of these days, when I've got matters tight and snug, I calculates to tend to my soul.

It is always our treasure that the lightning strikes.

the delicacy that respects a friend's silence is one of the charms of life.

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