It was Shakespeare's notion that on this day birds begin to couple; hence probably arose the custom of sending fancy love-billets.

There is no character in the comedy of human life more difficult to play well than that of an old bachelor.

Nothing can be more touching than to behold a soft and tender female, who had been all weakness and dependence, and alive to every trivial roughness while treading the prosperous paths of life, suddenly rising in mental force to be the comforter and supporter of her husband under misfortune, and abiding with unshrinking firmness the bitterest blast of adversity.

Others may write from the head, but he writes from the heart, and the heart will always understand him.

A mother is the truest friend we have.

For what is history, but... huge libel on human nature, to which we industriously add page after page, volume after volume, as if we were holding up a monument to the honor, rather than the infamy of our species.

The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated.