Mouths talk without authority sometimes..

a mother-in-law's praise says more in a woman's favor than anything else in the world..

A parting is sadder than a death, Ma always said, for two people are dead to one another and yet go on living..

Pity makes a thin drink, indeed..

a heart may be lifted up and cast down in the same moment, as sometimes sunshine comes while rain is falling and builds upward in the sky tall reache….