Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.

The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me than another is the quantity of heart I find in it.

Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has ''cast up'' in my time or is like to -- this art by which even the ''poor'' can possess themselves of tolerable likenesses of their absent dear ones. And mustn't it be acting favorably on the morality of the country?

Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.

I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.

But what are friends? What is a husband, even, compared with one's Mother? Of her love, one is always so sure! It is the only love that nothing - not even misconduct on our part - can take away from us.