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

If life is often so hard as this, I don't see how we ever shall get through it.

Your father, Jo. He never loses patience, never doubts or complains, but always hopes, and works and waits so cheerfully that one is ashamed to do otherwise before him.

I may be strong-minded, but no one can say I'm out of my sphere now, for woman's special mission is supposed to be drying tears and bearing burdens

I shall keep my book on the table here, and read a little every morning as soon as I wake, for I know it will do me good, and help me through the day.

Resolved to take fate by the throat and shake a living out of her.

It is never too early to try and plant [good principles] in a child, and never too late to cultivate them in the most neglected person.