The incomprehensibleness of women is an old theory, but what is that to the curious wondering observation with which wives, mothers, and sisters watch the other unreasoning animal in those moments when he has snatched the reins out of their hands, and is not to be spoken to! . It is best to let him come to, and feel his own helplessness.

every generation has a conceit of itself which elevates it, in its own opinion, above that which comes after it.

One only says it is one's duty when one has something disagreeable to do.

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.

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.

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.