O vanity, mislead no more!

Dan clung to her in speechless gratitude, feeling the blessedness of mother love, — that divine gift which comforts, purifies, and strengthens all who seek it.

Don't cry so bitterly, but remember this day, and resolve with all your soul that you will never know another like it.

If you dear little girls would only learn what real beauty is, and not pinch and starve and bleach yourselves out so, you'd save an immense deal of time and money and pain. A happy soul in a healthy body makes the best sort of beauty for man or woman.

Young men often laugh at the sensible girls whom they secretly respect, and affect to admire the silly ones whom they secretly despise, because earnestness, intelligence, and womanly dignity are not the fashion.

Oh, Jo, how could you? Your one beauty.

I went [to war] because I couldn't help it. I didn't want the glory or the pay; I wanted the right thing done.