Life is my university, and I hope to graduate from it with some distinction.
Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.
The fear of being an old maid made young girls rush into matrimony with a recklessness that astonishes.
Girls could do most things as well as boys, and some things better.
Remember that frost comes latest to those that bloom the highest.
I’ve learned to check the hasty words that rise to my lips, and when I feel that they mean to break out against my will, I just go away for a minute, and give myself a little shake for being so weak and wicked.
People cannot be molded like clay.
Liberty is a better husband than love to many of us.
Books are always good company if you have the right sort.
Cheerfulness can change misfortune into love and friends.
Everybody has their days of misfortune.
I don’t think it’s fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty things, and other girls nothing at all.
Souls and bodies should go on together.
Youth, health and freedom were meant to be enjoyed and I want to try every pleasure before I am too old to enjoy them.
Salt is like good-humor, and nearly every thing is better for a pinch of it.
Have your fun, my dear; but if you must earn your bread, try to make it sweet with cheerfulness, not bitter with the daily regret that it isn’t cake.
The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.
Now we are expected to be as wise as men who have had generations of all the help there is, and we scarcely anything.
Now I’m beginning to live a little and feel less like a sick oyster at low tide.
I put in my list all the busy, useful independent spinsters I know, for liberty is a better husband than love to many of us.