Books are the liberated spirits of men.

I saw men whom thirty years had changed but slightly; but their wives had grown old. These were good women; it is very wearing to be good.

Memories which someday will become all beautiful when the last annoyance that encumbers them shall have faded out of our minds.

A woman springs a sudden reproach upon you which provokes a hot retort, and then she will presently ask you to apologize.

How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

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.