I asked for bread, and I got a stone in the shape of a pedestal.

If you dear little girls would only learn what real beauty is, and not pinch and starve and bleach yourselves out so, you'd save an immense deal of time and money and pain. A happy soul in a healthy body makes the best sort of beauty for man or woman.

He looked at her an instant, for the effect of the graceful girlish figure with pale, passionate face and dark eyes full of sorrow, pride and resolution was wonderfully enhanced by the gloom of the great room, and glimpses of a gathering storm in the red autumn sky.

Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.

She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

I asked for bread, and I got a stone in the shape of a pedestal.