I'm usually taken for a non-intellectual, a person of limited intelligence. I don't know why, but I figure it's because physically I don't look intelligent.
Patience is the strongest of strong drinks; for it kills the giant despair.
Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.
After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.
Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.
What a fine-looking thing is war! Yet, dress it as we may, dress and feather it, daub it with gold, huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it,--what is it, nine times out of ten, but murder in uniform!
A blessed companion is a book--a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend. . . a book that, at a touch, pours its heart into your own.
Wit and woman are two frail things, and both the frailer by concurring.
I'm certainly the last person to give advice on, well, anything.
I believe each person has far more intelligence than they have ever used.
All parents are concerned about their children's well-being. As a parent of three kids, I'm very concerned about their well-being.