Grandmother belongs to the generation of women who were satisfied to have men retain their vices, if they removed their hats.

Age, per se, may claim tenderness and pity, but not respect; that only comes when the years have brought humanity and wisdom and the experience that worketh hope.

If you are kind to an enemy, you cannot hate him.

Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.

There is a bond, it appears, between mother and child which endures as long as they do. It is independent of love; reason cannot weaken it; hate cannot destroy it.

Hearts don't come when Reason whistles to 'em.

I have no faith in a human critter who hasn't one or two bad habits.