God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts.

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

Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ...and then cackles.

A cup of coffee - real coffee - home-browned, home ground, home made, that comes to you dark as a hazel-eye, but changes to a golden bronze as you temper it with cream that never cheated, but was real cream from its birth, thick, tenderly yellow, perfect!

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.

A mother's prayers, silent and gentle, can never miss the road to the throne of all bounty.

Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.