Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn’t worth ruling.
It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don’t think any one will deny us.
She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.
The rooms were very still while the pages were softly turned and the winter sunshine crept in to touch the bright heads and serious faces with a Christmas greeting.
I like adventures, and I’m going to find some.
It takes two flints to make a fire.
Love is a great beautifier.
I ask not for any crown But that which all may win; Nor try to conquer any world Except the one within.
I’d rather take coffee than compliments just now.
You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernel, if one can only get at it. Love will make you show your heart some day, and then the rough burr will fall off.
Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.
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.