All is fish that comes to the literary net. Goethe puts his joys and sorrows into poems, I turn my adventures into bread and butter.

…proved that woman isn't a half but a whole human being, and can stand alone.

Your father, Jo. He never loses patience, never doubts or complains, but always hopes, and works and waits so cheerfully that one is ashamed to do otherwise before him.

Poor dull Concord. Nothing colorful has come through here since the Redcoats.

No woman should give her happiness into the keeping of a man without fixed principles.

Persuasive influences are better than any amount of moralizing.

Girls could do most things as well as boys, and some things better.