The family is the nucleus of civilization.

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice -- that is, until we have stopped saying "It got lost," and say, "I lost it.".

Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome; the good, the true, the tender- these form the wealth of home.

Who misses, or who wins the prize?
Go, lose and conquer as you can:
But if you fail, or if you rise,
Be each, pray God, a gentleman.

She had once said that she believed the women's liberation movement of the sixties and seventies was actually a ploy by men to get women to do more.

A man -- I let the truth out --
Who's had almost every tooth out,
Cannot sing as once he sang,
When he was young as you are young,
When he was young and lutes were strung,
And love-lamps in the casement hung.