The average reader can contemplate with considerable fortitude the sorrows and disappointments of someone else.

The greatest insult came at the marriage ceremony when the minister asked 'who giveth this woman,' and some brother, or father or other man, unblushingly said he did, as though it were entirely a commercial transaction between men.

A wound in a young heart is like a wound in a young tree. It does not grow out. It grows in.

In regard to tenacity of life, no old yellow cat has anything on a prejudice. You may kill it with your own hands, bury it deep, and sit on the grave, and behold! the next day it will walk in at the back door, purring.

The average reader can contemplate with considerable fortitude the sorrows and disappointments of someone else.

People must know the past to understand the present, and to face the future.

the grief that can be turned into words soon heals.