Now and then genius carries all before it, but not often. We have to climb slowly, with many slips and falls.

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.

Love is a great beautifier.

If you dear little girls would only learn what real beauty is, and not pinch and starve and bleach yourselves out so, you'd save an immense deal of time and money and pain. A happy soul in a healthy body makes the best sort of beauty for man or woman.

Don't shut yourself up in a band box because you are a woman, but understand what is going on, and educate yourself to take part in the world's work, for it all affects you and yours.

…that's what old people are here for, — else their experience is of little use.

Power is a dangerous thing. Be careful that you don't abuse it or let it make a tyrant of you.