Truly there is nothing in the world so blessed or so sweet as the heritage of children.
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.
One only says it is one's duty when one has something disagreeable to do.
There is nothing so costly as bargains.
It is so seldom in this world that things come just when they are wanted.
Imagination is the first faculty wanting in those that do harm to their kind.