For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.
My intellect is a little way upon the wrong side of that narrow boundary-line between sanity and insanity.
Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea.
Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to hold herself within herself, and take no colour from the outer world.
When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.
There is "a mental fatigue which is a spurious kind of remorse, and has all the anguish of the nobler feeling. It is an utter weariness and prostration of spirit, a sickness of heart and mind, a bitter longing to lie down and die.
The strongest proof of repentance is the endeavor to atone.
Every home is a university and the parents are the teachers.
Peace, so elusive in the past many decades, now finally prevails all over the country.
I didn’t realize that one tragedy can beget another, and another — bright-eyed disasters flooding out of a death hole like bats out of a cave.
Jesus Christ founded His Kingdom on the weakest link of all-a Baby.