I want a human sermon. I don't care what Melchisedek, or Zerubbabel, or Kerenhappuk did, ages ago; I want to know what I am to do, and I want somebod….

Show me an 'easy person,' and I will show you a selfish one. Good-natured he may be; why not? since the disastrous consequences of his 'easiness' are….

There are so many ready to write (poor fools!) for the honor and glory of the thing, and there are so many ready to take advantage of this fact, and ….

Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them a….

No crust so tough as the grudged bread of dependence..

Hoary-headed old Winter, I have had enough of you!.

O, girls! set your affections on cats, poodles, parrots or lap-dogs; but let matrimony alone. It's the hardest way on earth to getting a living..

A little oil makes machinery work easy..

Can anybody tell me why reporters, in making mention of lady speakers, always consider it to be necessary to report, fully and firstly, the dresses w….

The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach..

Oh! to be a child again. My only treasures, bits of shell and stone and glass. To love nothing but maple sugar. To fear nothing but a big dog. To go ….

Few husbands (and the longer I observe, the more I am convinced of the truth of what I am about to say, and I make no exception in favor of education….

Too much indulgence has ruined thousands of children; too much love not one..

To the Pilgrim Mothers, who not only had their full share of the hardships and privations of pioneer life but also had the Pilgrim Fathers to endure..

The term 'lady' has been so misused, that I like better the old-fashioned term, woman..

Experience is an excellent doctor, though he never had a diploma..

Our domestic Napoleons, too many of them, give flattery, bonnets and bracelets to women, and everything else but - justice..

There are no little things. "Little things," so called, are the hinges of the universe..

I hate the word proper. If you tell me a thing is not proper, I immediately feel the most rabid desire to go 'neck and heels' into it..

To her, the name of father was another name for love..

I am convinced that there are times in everybody's experience when there is so much to be done, that the only way to do it is to sit down and do noth….