Holy and pure are the drops that fall, When the young bride goes from her father's hall; She goes unto love yet untried and new- She parts from lo…

- Martha Finley

Though not a remarkably precocious child in other respects, she seemed to have very clear and correct views on almost every subject connected with he…

- Martha Finley

Ah, what a sweetner of toil is love—love to a dear earthly parent, and still more love to Christ. There is no drudgery in the most menial employment …

- Martha Finley

It is an easy thing to call names; any fool is equal to that ... and the weapon of vituperation is generally used by those who lack brains for argume…

- Martha Finley

Good husbands make good wives.

- Martha Finley

Horace Dinsmore was, like his father, an upright, moral man, who paid an outward respect to the forms of religion, but cared nothing for the vital po…

- Martha Finley

I have often noticed that spoiled, petted children, usually have very little love for their parents, or indeed for any one but themselves.

- Martha Finley