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.

Let us be elegant or die! --Amy

The fear of being an old maid made young girls rush into matrimony with a recklessness that astonishes.

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

A holiday isn't a holiday, without plenty of freedom and fun.

A kiss for a blow is always best, though it's not very easy to give it sometimes.

where I wholly love I wholly trust.