Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome; the good, the true, the tender- these form the wealth of home.

He didn't know why, but seeing her made him feel like a man. She was something out of a dream - a dream in which he was not a spoiled young prince, but a king.

The family is the nucleus of civilization.

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice -- that is, until we have stopped saying "It got lost," and say, "I lost it.".

She was a weak woman - too highly elated in prosperity, too easily depressed by adversity - not considering that both are situations of trial

She had once said that she believed the women's liberation movement of the sixties and seventies was actually a ploy by men to get women to do more.