“It was a boyish thing to do and it caught the hesitating girl in the depths of her heart, as the boy element in a man ever appeals to a motherly woman.”

“A mother that is successful in raising a good boy, or girl, to imitate her example and to follow her precepts through life, sows the seeds of virtue, honor and integrity and of righteousness in their hearts that will be felt through all their career in life; and wherever that boy or girl goes, as man or woman, in whatever society they mingle, the good effects of the example of that mother upon them will be felt; and it will never die, because it will extend from them to their children from generation to generation.”

“honestly, I like everything, boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny.”

“A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.”

“A man can own a woman or a man can own a knife, but no man can own both. Every little girl learns that from her mother.”

“Behind every sucessful boy there is a woman call his MOTHER and behind every unsuscessful boy there is a girl call his GIRLFRIEND".”