An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.
If you do not get what you want, it is a sure sign that you did not seriously want it.
God help us for we knew the worst too young.
You sometimes see a woman who would have made a Joan of Arc in another century and climate, threshing herself to pieces over all the mean worry of housekeeping.
And some can pot begonias and some can bud a rose, And some are hardly fit to trust with anything that grows.