The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

Everyone should have two or three hives of bees. Bees are easier to keep than a dog or a cat. They are more interesting than gerbils.

Show me one couple unhappy merely on account of their limited circumstances, and I will show you ten who are wretched from other causes.

To all new truths, or renovation of old truths, it must be as in the ark between the destroyed and the about-to-be renovated world. The raven must be sent out before the dove, and ominous controversy must precede peace and the olive wreath.

Her skin was white as leprosy.

I do not wish you to act from these truths; no, still and always act from your feelings; only meditate often on these truths that sometime or other they may become your feelings.

When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.