“It is a poor family that hath neither a whore nor a thief in it”

“The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.”

“I have never belonged wholeheartedly to a country, a state, nor to a circle of friends, nor even to my own family.”

“No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace–in peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons.”

“Children are not our property, and they are not ours to control any more that we were our parents’ property or theirs to control.”