I put in my list all the busy, useful independent spinsters I know, for liberty is a better husband than love to many of us.

I ask not for any crown But that which all may win; Nor try to conquer any world Except the one within.

Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.

He looked at her an instant, for the effect of the graceful girlish figure with pale, passionate face and dark eyes full of sorrow, pride and resolution was wonderfully enhanced by the gloom of the great room, and glimpses of a gathering storm in the red autumn sky.

Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you.

Let us be elegant or die! --Amy

I'd have a stable full of Arabian steeds, rooms piled with books, and I'd write out of a magic inkstand, so that my works should be as famous as Laurie's music. I want to do something splendid before I go into my castle,-something heroic, or wonderful,-that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I don't know what, but I'm on the watch for it, and mean to astonish you all, some day. I think I shall write books, and get rich and famous; that would suit me, so that is my favorite dream.