A babe is a mother's anchor.

Going out into life--that is dying. Christ is the door out of life.

True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.

Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.

A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.

If a boy is not trained to endure and to bear trouble, he will grow up a girl; and a boy that is a girl has all a girl's weakness without any of her regal qualities. A woman made out of a woman is God's noblest work; a woman made out of a man is His meanest.

Men strengthen each other in their faults. Those who are alike associate together, repeat the things which all believe, defend and stimulate their common faults of disposition, and each one receives from the others a reflection of his own egotism.