Imagination is the first faculty wanting in those that do harm to their kind.

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

For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it.

There is nothing more effectual in showing us the weakness of any habitual fallacy or assumption than to hear it sympathetically through the ears, as it were, of a skeptic.

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.

There's looks as speaks as strong as words.

Next to happiness, perhaps enmity is the most healthful stimulant of the human mind.