Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you.
Good, old-fashioned ways keep hearts sweet, heads sane, hands busy.
Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
Every house needs a grandmother in it.
Nothing is impossible to a determined woman.
I could have been a great many things.
Human minds are more full of mysteries than any written book and more changeable than the cloud shapes in the air.
You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.
Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it.
Father asked us what was God’s noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.
A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.
Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.
Life is like college; may I graduate and earn some honors.
I don’t pretend to be wise, but I am observing, and I see a great deal more than you’d imagine. I’m interested in other people’s experiences and inconsistencies, and, though I can’t explain, I remember and use them for my own benefit.
I may be strong-minded, but no one can say I’m out of my sphere now, for woman’s special mission is supposed to be drying tears and bearing burdens.
It takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world.
Where the heart is the mind works best.
There was a good deal of laughing and kissing and explaining, in the simple, loving fashion which makes these home-festivals so pleasant at the time, so sweet to remember long afterward, and then all fell to work.