A real gentleman is as polite to a little girl as to a woman.

It takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world.

...the love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my efforts to be the woman I would have them copy.

Fathers and mothers are too absorbed in business and housekeeping to study their children, and cherish that sweet and natural confidence which is a child's surest safeguard, and a parent's subtlest power.

So she enjoyed herself heartily, and found, what isn't always the case, that her granted wish was all she had hoped.

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

Dear me! how happy and good we'd be, if we had no worries!