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.

…I can't help seeing that you are very lonely, and sometimes there is a hungry look in your eyes that goes to my heart.

The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.

Nothing seemed impossible in the beginning.

Nothing is impossible to a determined woman.

I did fail, say what you will, for Jo wouldn't love me.

Where the heart is the mind works best.