Even in misery we love to be foremost, to have the bitter in our cup acknowledged as more bitter than that of others.

It is often easier to justify one's self to others than to respond to the secret doubts that arise in one's own bosom.

Truly there is nothing in the world so blessed or so sweet as the heritage of children.

Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to be driven out of your senses with thinking which of two things you ought to do than to do nothing whatever, and be utterly uninteresting to all the world.

Married people do stand up so for each other when you say a word, however they may fight between themselves.

Against the long years when family bonds make up all that is happiest in life, there must always be reckoned those moments of agitation and revolution, during which the bosom of a family is the most unrestful and disturbing place in existence.

It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.