Good families are generally worse than any others.

In the deep, unwritten wisdom of life there are many things to be learned that cannot be taught. We never know them by hearing them spoken, but we grow into them by experience and recognize them through understanding. Understanding is a great experience in itself, but it does not come through instruction.

I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.

I may not understand, but I am willing to admire.

He is very fond of making things which he does not want, and then giving them to people who have no use for them.

There are moments when I dare not think of it, but there are others when I rise in spirit to where she ever dwells then I can thank God that I love the noblest lady in the world, the most gracious and beautiful, and that there was nothing in my love that made her fall short in her high duty.