The person who decides what shall be the food and drink of a family, and the modes of its preparation, is the one who decides, to a greater or less extent, what shall be the health of that family.

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.

Sensitive people never like the fatigue of justifying their instincts.

Humankind above all is lazy.

How, then, shall a Christian bear fruit? By efforts and struggles to obtain that which is freely given; by meditations on watchfulness, on prayer, on action, on temptation, and on dangers? No, there must be a full concentration of the thoughts and affections on Christ; a complete surrender of the whole being to him; a constant looking to him for grace.

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

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