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

Men are often bad, but babies never are.

The girls gave their hearts into their mother's keeping-their souls into their father's; and to both parents, who lived and labored so faithfully for them, they gave a love that grew with their growth, and bound them tenderly together by the sweetest tie which blesses life and outlives death.

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

I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me.

It's a great comfort to have an artistic sister.

I asked for bread, and I got a stone in the shape of a pedestal.