A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.

Love is ownership. We own whom we love. The universe is God's because He loves.

Love is the wine of existence.

Whatever is only almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is the more likely to lead astray.

Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him.

No one thing does human life more need than a kind consideration of the faults of others. Every one sins; everyone needs forbearance. Our own imperfections should teach us to be merciful.

That was a judicious mother who said, "I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me."

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.