I put in my list all the busy, useful independent spinsters I know, for liberty is a better husband than love to many of us.
The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
Elegance has a bad effect on my constitution.
Work is and always has been my salvation and I thank the Lord for it.
Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
Fathers and mothers are too absorbed in business and housekeeping to study their children, and cherish that sweet and natural confidence which is a child's surest safeguard, and a parent's subtlest power.