They were enjoying the happy hour that seldom comes but once in any life, the magical moment which bestows youth on the old, beauty on the plain, wealth on the poor, and gives human hearts a foretaste of heaven.

People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don't sell nowadays.

Watch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fault.

If life is often so hard as this, I don't see how we ever shall get through it.

Because they are mean is no reason why I should be. I hate such things, and though I think I've a right to be hurt, I don't intend to show it. (Amy March)

I think we are all hopelessly flawed.

Fathers and mothers are too absorbed in business and housekeeping to study their children, and cherish that sweet and natural confidence which is a child's surest safeguard, and a parent's subtlest power.