The emerging woman ... will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied...strength and beauty must go together.

The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed.

Love is apt to make lunatics of even men and saints.

Life is my university, and I hope to graduate from it with some distinction.

Love and Loyalty If ever men and women are their simplest, sincerest selves, it is when suffering softens the one, and sympathy strengthens the other.

I had a pleasant time with my mind, for it was happy.

Good, old-fashioned ways keep hearts sweet, heads sane, hands busy.