I don't worry about the storms, I am learning to sail my own ship.

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

…she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.

Now I'm beginning to live a little and feel less like a sick oyster at low tide.

I think this power of living in our children is one of the sweetest things in the world.

There was a good deal of laughing and kissing and explaining, in the simple, loving fashion which makes these home-festivals so pleasant at the time, so sweet to remember long afterward, and then all fell to work.

Love and Loyalty If ever men and women are their simplest, sincerest selves, it is when suffering softens the one, and sympathy strengthens the other.