Life is my university, and I hope to graduate from it with some distinction.

The rooms were very still while the pages were softly turned and the winter sunshine crept in to touch the bright heads and serious faces with a Christmas greeting.

Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can

Beth could not reason upon or explain the faith that gave her courage and patience to give up life, and cheerfully wait for death. Like a confiding child, she asked no questions, but left everything to God and nature, Father and Mother of us all, feeling sure that they, and they only, could teach and strengthen heart and spirit for this life and the life to come.

Ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.

It takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world.

No woman should give her happiness into the keeping of a man without fixed principles.