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

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

Terror of being found out is not always a preservative, it sometimes hurries on the act which it ought to prevent.

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.

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Somehow even a popular fallacy has an aspect of truth when it suits one's own case.

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.