Woman work a great many miracles.

Love scenes, if genuine, are indescribable; for to those who have enacted them the most elaborate description seems tame, and to those who have not, the simplest picture seems overdone.

Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants.

…for no matter how lost and soiled and worn-out wandering sons may be, mothers can forgive and forget every thing as they fold them into their fostering arms. Happy the son whose faith in his mother remains unchanged, and who, through all his wanderings, has kept some filial token to repay her brave and tender love.

politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names

She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.

The violin - that most human of all instruments.