Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.

His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only enjoying that for which it was worthy!

Just close your eyes—and think of England.

The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.

No civilization is complete which does not include the dumb and defenseless of God's creatures within the sphere of charity and mercy.

[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and ... it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.

Nothing will turn a man's home into a castle more quickly and effectively than a dachshund.