Who said “For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the…”?

“As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.”

“Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.”

“Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.”

“Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.”

“So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.”

“Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by.”

“Be the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet; and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou wilt, forget.”

“Obedience is the fruit of faith.”

“Hope is like a hairball trembling from its birth...”

“And all the winds go sighing, for sweet things dying.”

“Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.”