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"There was never a great man who had not a great mother."
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"The real beauty of a house is always the happiness inside that house!"

"We grow up opposing our parents only to become like them enough to oppose our children who behave as we once did-a reminder of how dreadful we were toward those now vindicated grandparents. And you thought God had no sense of humor."

"Grandchildren are their grandparents' toys."
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"We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep."

"How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper."

"No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted."

"It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand."

"Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them."

"Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it - but there is."
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