For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand.

I think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!

What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?

I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.

I am worn to a raveling.

All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.

The shorter and the plainer the better.