The best wife, mother, daughter, and sister is always a woman of sentiment. It is only when the thorny briars of duty are made to blossom with the flowers of sentiment, that life's hard tasks become endurable. The best wife is the woman who idealizes her hus- band, who surrounds him with a halo of romance and sentiment, which in nineteen cases out of twenty causes him to become the very being she imagines him. They forget that it is rude to stare. It is enough to make a fact stubborn to eternally hear that phrase and to have people forever staring it in the face.
Sentiment goes hand in hand with love, and the two can regenerate the world.
Without them life is not worth the living. Every-day thoughts in prose and verse.