As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.

Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage. read more

• Thought Manners Happy Ways Doing Things Once Stroke Genius Love Repeated Hardened Usage

Delusions are often functional. A mother"s opinions about her children"s beauty, intelligence, goodness, et cetera ad nauseam, keep her from drowning them at birth. read more

• Thought Delusions Often Functional Mother Opinions About Children Beauty Intelligence Goodness Cetera Ad Nauseam Keep from Drowning Them Birth

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love. read more

• Thought Love Depicted Blind Self

Progress is man’s ability to complicate simplicity read more

• Thought Progress Man Ability Complicate Simplicity

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave. read more

• Thought Let Wife Husband Glad Come Home Sorry See Leave

The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones. read more

• Experience Human-nature Test Good Manners Patient Bad Ones

Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire. read more

• Thought Jealousy Cruel Grave Coals Thereof Fire

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow. read more

• Thought Plan for World Expect Live Forever Hereafter Die Tomorrow

As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave read more

• Wise-words Long Word Remains Unspoken Its Master Once Utter Slave

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private. read more

• Thought Friend Tell Faults Private

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