“That’s right; put on the steam, fasten down the escape-valve, and sit on it, and see there you’ll land.”

“But it is often those who have least of all in this life whom He chooseth for the kingdom. Put thy trust in Him and no matter what befalls thee here, He will make all right hereafter.”

“Now, there's no way with servants, but to put them down, and keep them down. It was always natural to me, from a child. Eva is enough to spoil a whole house-full. What will she do when she comes to keep house herself, I'm sure I don't know. I hold to being kind to servants - I always am; but you must make 'em know their place. Eva never does; there's no getting into the child's head the first beginning of an idea what a servant's place is! You heard her offering to take care of me nights, to let Mammy sleep! That's just a specimen of the way the child would be doing all the time, if she was left to herself.”

“I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people'sglass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.”

“There's a way you political folks have of coming round and round a plain right thing”

“Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.”

“It is generally understood that men don't aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world.”