To be strong, and beautiful, and go round making music all the time. Yes, she could do that, and with a very earnest prayer Polly asked for the strength of an upright soul, the beauty of a tender heart, the power to make her life a sweet and stirring song, helpful while it lasted, remembered when it died.

Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.

I hate ordinary people!

Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.

Dear me, if men and women would only trust, understand, and help one another as my children do, what a capital place the world would be!

A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever.

Woman work a great many miracles.