Occupation: Poet Birth: February 22, 1838 Death: 1912
Broadly speaking, nervous women may be divided into two classes - those who are really nervous, and those who imagine themselves to be so..
I thank you, God, in Heaven, for friends..
Every child's birthright is a happy home..
Love is like fire, a dangerous thing to play with, although the best of friends and the most loyal of servants when rightly handled..
One of the first things to be noted in business life is its imperialism. Business is exacting, engrossing, and inelastic..
Theres nothing half so pleasant as coming home again..
Mind does dominate body. We are superior to the house in which we dwell..
God made the forests, the tiny stars, and the wild winds-and I think that he made them partly as a balance for that kind of civilization that would c….
Love turns all the wheels of human industry, is the motive power under the world's machinery, makes worthwhile every enterprise on the earth, is coeq….
At Christmas-tide the open hand Scatters its bounty o'er sea and land, And none are left to grieve alone, For Love is heaven and claims its own..
No one should teach who is not in love with teaching..
Self-complacen cy is fatal to progress..
Spring is beautiful, and summer is perfect for vacations, but autumn brings a longing to get away from the unreal things of life, out into the forest….
It isn't the thing you do, dear, it's the thing you leave undone which gives you a bit of heartache at the setting at the setting of the sun..
Let every birthday be a festival, a time when the gladness of the house finds expression in flowers, in gifts, in a little fête. Never should a birth….
I think that the Almighty gave springtime to a tired world so that its peoples might know rest. I think that He gave it to a troubled world so that t….
In home life contentment is an essential to daily comfort. One discontented person in the house creates an atmosphere fatal to tranquillity..
In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding..
I would not, if I could, give up the memory of the joy I have had in books for any advantage that could be offered in other pursuits or occupations. ….
... Love is heaven and claims its own..
A letter is the most imperishable thing on earth..