It is never too early to try and plant [good principles] in a child, and never too late to cultivate them in the most neglected person.

No woman should give her happiness into the keeping of a man without fixed principles.

You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernel, if one can only get at it. Love will make you show your heart some day, and then the rough burr will fall off.

I shall keep my book on the table here, and read a little every morning as soon as I wake, for I know it will do me good, and help me through the day.

The girls gave their hearts into their mother's keeping-their souls into their father's; and to both parents, who lived and labored so faithfully for them, they gave a love that grew with their growth, and bound them tenderly together by the sweetest tie which blesses life and outlives death.

Love is a great beautifier.

It is never too early to try and plant [good principles] in a child, and never too late to cultivate them in the most neglected person.