The woman who creates and sustains a home, and under whose hands children grow up to be strong and pure men and women, is a creator second only to God.

That indescribable expression peculiar to people who hope they have not been asleep, but know they have.

There cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat, or any other creature, so blind in its own range of circumstance and connection, as the greater majority of human beings are in the bosoms of their families

Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the last.

Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.

The wild mustard in Southern California is like that spoken of in the New Testament. . . . Its gold is as distinct a value to the eye as the nugget gold is in the pocket.

O month when they who love must love and wed.