A woman's pity often opens the door to love.

Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.

A man never has good luck who has a bad wife.

All things in the natural world symbolize God, yet none of them speak of Him but in broken and imperfect words.

The bibliophile is the master of his books, the bibliomaniac their slave.

Too much looking backward ... is bad for progress.

Whenever education and refinement carry us away from the common people, they are growing towards selfishness, which is the monster evil of the world. That is true cultivation which gives us sympathy with every form of human life, and enables us to work most successfully for its advancement. Refinement that carries us away from our fellow people is not God's refinement.