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.
Work is always my salvation and I will celebrate it.
A holiday isn’t a holiday, without plenty of freedom and fun.
Rule yourself. Love your neighbor. Do the duty that lies nearest you.
Now and then genius carries all before it, but not often. We have to climb slowly, with many slips and falls.
Go out more, keep cheerful as well as busy, for you are the sunshine-maker of the family, and if you get dismal there is no fair weather.
She fell into the moody, miserable state of mind which often comes when strong wills have to yield to the inevitable.
Back to him she would never go, but in her lonely life still lived the sweet memory of that happy time when she believed in him and he was all in all to her.
No woman should give her happiness into the keeping of a man without fixed principles...