Anger is like mild, it should not be kept too long.

... a woman who has been a nun is never anything else.

Curses are children of hate; they belong to the wrong family! Prayers are better than curses!

To see a shadow and think it is a tree that is a pity; but to see a tree and to think it a shadow can be fatal.

She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent their hanging themselves by it.

Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it.

We do good by ourselves, but we seldom do wrong alone.