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

It is so seldom in this world that things come just when they are wanted.

I think reading a novel is almost next best to having something to do.

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.

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

Laughing is not the first expression of joy. ... A person laughs in idleness, for fun, not for joy. Joy has nothing, nothing but the old way of tears.

Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.