There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never know beyond its hallowed limits.

My notions of life are much the same as they are about traveling; there is a good deal of amusement on the road; but, after all, one wants to be at rest.

A house is never perfectly furnished for enjoyment unless there is a child in it rising three years old, and a kitten rising three weeks.

By writing much, one learns to write well.

Beware of those who are homeless by choice! You have no hold on human being whose affections are without a top-root!

Take away love, and not physical nature only, but the heart of the moral world, would be palsied.

There are three things in speech that ought to be considered before some things are spoken--the manner, the place and the time.