He was the first, the only love her life, and in a nature like hers such passions take deep root and die-hard.

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.

Go out more, keep cheerful as well as busy, for you are the sunshine-maker of the family, and if you get dismal there is no fair weather.

She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.

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

Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up. Even when they do, it is not perfect, and they sigh for more, and lose better things in struggling for them.

I can't get over my disappointment in not being a boy.