I'm tired of praise; and love is very sweet, when it is simple and sincere like this.

Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can

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

Housekeeping ain't no joke.

The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed.

Back to him she would never go, but in her lonely life still lived the sweet memory of that happy time when she believed in him and he was all in all to her.

Salt is like good-humor, and nearly every thing is better for a pinch of it.