A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

Who soweth good seed shall surely reap; The year grows rich as it groweth old, And life's latest sands are its sands of gold!

Like other potentates with a long habit of arbitrary authority, she covered her perplexity with a smart show of decision.

Our imaginations seem to have been torn open . . . as by a charge of dynamite.