There is not a single heart but has its moments of longing.

Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.

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

The strong are God's natural protectors of the weak.

A mother is as different from anything else that God ever thought of, as can possibly be. She is a distinct and individual creation.

The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.

Though a man declares himself an atheist, it in no way alters his obligations.