Grief is the price Love pays for being in the same world with Death.

silence is very moving to youth, for who knows what it hides?

It is useless to deny that, unless one has a genius for imparting knowledge, teaching is a drudgery.

a manufactured interest has no staying quality - especially if it involves any hard work.

the attempt to break a habit of years is necessarily experimental.

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.

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