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

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

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

... swept into the giddy vortex which keeps so many young people revolving aimlessly, till they go down or are cast upon the shore, wrecks of what they might have been

The patience and the humility of the face she loved so well was a better lesson to Jo than the wisest lecture, the sharpest reproof.

The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.

Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.