The clocks were striking midnight and the rooms were very still as a figure glided quietly from bed to bed, smoothing a coverlid here, settling a pillow there, and pausing to look long and tenderly at each unconscious face, to kiss each with lips that mutely blessed, and to pray the fervent prayers which only mothers utter.

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

I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.

I for one don't want to be ranked among idiots, felons, and minors any longer, for I am none of them.

I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.

strength and beauty must go hand in hand

November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year.