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

I often think flowers are the angels' alphabet whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious and beautiful lessons for us to feel and learn.

Have your fun, my dear; but if you must earn your bread, try to make it sweet with cheerfulness, not bitter with the daily regret that it isn't cake.

I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queen's on thrones, without self-respect and peace.

Laurie felt just then that his heart was entirely broken and the world a howling wilderness.

The female population exceeds the male, you know, especially in New England, which accounts for the high state of culture we are in, perhaps.

Girls could do most things as well as boys, and some things better.