When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.

Humor is the mistress of tears.

Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody's fine feelings may be offended.

An intelligent wife can make her home, in spite of exigencies, pretty much what she pleases.

We are most of us very lonely in this world; you who have any who love you, cling to them and thank God.

The death of a child occasions a passion of grief and frantic tears, such as your end, brother reader, will never inspire.

it is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody