If I didn't care about doing right and didn't feel uncomfortable doing wrong, I should get on capitally.

A quick temper, sharp tongue, and restless spirit were always getting her into scrapes, and her life was a series of ups and downs, which were both comic and pathetic.

He was poor, yet always appeared to be giving something away; a stranger, yet everyone was his friend; no longer young, but as happy-hearted as a boy; plain and peculiar, yet his face looked beautiful to many.

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.

Housekeeping ain't no joke.

But the spirit of Eve is strong in all her daughters.

To most the end comes as naturally and simply as sleep.