Education is not confined to books, and the finest characters often graduate from no college, but make experience their master, and life their book. [Some care] only for the mental culture, and [are] in danger of over-studying, under the delusion . . . that learning must be had at all costs, forgetting that health and real wisdom are better.

The emerging woman ... will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied...strength and beauty must go together.

life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.

Go on with your work as usual, for work is a blessed solace.

I don't worry about the storms, I am learning to sail my own ship.

…misfortune was much more interesting to her than good luck.

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