I'm tired of praise; and love is very sweet, when it is simple and sincere like this.

During the fifteen minutes that followed, the proud and sensitive girl suffered a shame and pain which she never forgot. To others it might seem a ludicrous or trivial affair, but to her it was a hard experience, for during the twelve years of her life she had been governed by love alone

Oh, Jo, how could you? Your one beauty.

Simple, sincere people seldom speak much of their piety; it shows itself in acts rather than words, and has more influence than homilies or protestations.

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

I think this power of living in our children is one of the sweetest things in the world.

Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you.