There never yet was a mother who taught her child to be an infidel.

The soul has more diseases than the body.

Anxiety will bear a lot of nuisance.

Prejudice is a house-plant which is very apt to wilt if you take it out-of-doors among folks.

Occasions are rare; and those, who know how to seize upon them, are rarer.

Politeness is better than logic. You can often persuade when you cannot convince.

There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins.