My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.

To do good is noble. To tell others to do good is even nobler and much less trouble.

To go abroad has something of the same sense that death brings. I am no longer of ye-what ye say of me is now of no consequence.

To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French.

She is not refined. She is not unrefined. She keeps a parrot

Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute-but they all worship money.

The North thinks it knows how to make corn bread, but this is a gross superstition. Perhaps no bread in the world is quite as good as Southern corn bread, and perhaps no bread in the world is quite as bad as the Northern imitation of it.