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.

The thought that, insignificant as she was, she yet might do some good, made her very careful of her acts and words, and so anxious to keep head contented and face happy, that she forgot her clothes, and made others do the same. She did not know it, but that good old fashion of simplicity made the plain gowns pretty, and the grace of unconsciousness beautified their little wearer with the charm that makes girlhood sweetest to those who truly love and reverence it.

... for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to be resisted.

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

Six weeks is a long time to wait, and a still longer time for a girl to keep a secret.

A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.

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