It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

Wit needs leisure, and certain inequalities of position

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.