“All my life I still have found, and I will forget it never; every sorrow hath its bound, and no cross endures forever.”

“The true method of knowledge is experiment.”

“Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators”

“The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for”

“And we are put on earth a little space that we may learn to bear the beams of love”

“Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century”