…it is so much better to work for others than for one's self alone.
I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
...and best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander, where she liked, made the library a region of bliss to her.
A real gentleman is as polite to a little girl as to a woman.
The fear of being an old maid made young girls rush into matrimony with a recklessness that astonishes.
At twenty-five, girls begin to talk about being old maids, but secretly resolve that they never will. At thirty, they say nothing about it, but quietly accept the fact.