…proved that woman isn't a half but a whole human being, and can stand alone.

The scar will remain, but it is better for a man to lose both arms than his soul; and these hard years, instead of being lost, may be made the most precious of your lives, if they teach you to rule yourselves.

Work is and always has been my salvation and I thank the Lord for it.

Poor dull Concord. Nothing colorful has come through here since the Redcoats.

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.

Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you.

Work is always my salvation and I will celebrate it.