…men never forgive like women.

It takes two flints to make a fire.

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.

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.

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.

We can't any of us do all we would like, but we can do our best for every case that comes to us, and that helps amazingly.

Mothers can forgive anything!