Life is the soul's nursery.

To love and win is the best thing.To love and lose, the next best.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

What woman, however old, has not the bridal-favours and raiment stowed away, and packed in lavender, in the inmost cupboards of her heart?

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

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

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.

I thought writing about somebody current would be a little closer to what I'm used to doing.

Grumbling and gratitude are, for the child of God, in conflict. Be grateful and you won't grumble. Grumble and you won't be grateful.

Hattie.' Grace patted my arm. 'My cows sing better than you do.

It's not intentions that matter. It's actions. We are what we do and say, not what we intend to.

People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.

Don't go to sleep, so many people die there.

Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic conditions of slave labor.

I think people feel safer being sad than they do being joyful.

Battle scars just remind us that we survived.