A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.

"My definition [of a philosopher] is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down."

"Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are."

People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.

"Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes."