Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

He that has ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton.

What, indeed, does not that word "cheerfulness" imply? It means a contented spirit, it means a pure heart, it means a kind and loving disposition; it means humility and charity; it means a generous appreciation of others, and a modest opinion of self.

Let us be very gentle with our neighbors' failings, and forgive our friends their debts as we hope ourselves to be forgiven.

That which we call a snob by any other name would still be snobbish.

If a man has committed wrong in life, I don't know any moralist more anxious to point his errors out to the world than his own relations.

Life is soul's nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.