“Most mothers are instinctive philosophers”

“Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins”

“All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter”

“Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be”

“When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life”

“Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank”