To most the end comes as naturally and simply as sleep.

…Jo loved a few persons very dearly and dreaded to have their affection lost or lessened in any way.

Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can

…what splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bubbles burst.

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.

Dear me, if men and women would only trust, understand, and help one another as my children do, what a capital place the world would be!

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.