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

- Caroline Pafford Miller

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

- Caroline Pafford Miller

Mouths talk without authority sometimes.

- Caroline Pafford Miller

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…

- Caroline Pafford Miller

Pity makes a thin drink, indeed.

- Caroline Pafford Miller