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 young people were playing that still more absorbing game in which hearts are always trumps.

Human minds are more full of mysteries than any written book and more changeable than the cloud shapes in the air.

... 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

Let us be elegant or die! --Amy

I may be strong-minded, but no one can say I'm out of my sphere now, for woman's special mission is supposed to be drying tears and bearing burdens

Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood.