Dear me, if men and women would only trust, understand, and help one another as my children do, what a capital place the world would be!

The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed.

Girls could do most things as well as boys, and some things better.

…that's what old people are here for, — else their experience is of little use.

Money is a needful and precious thing

And when they went away, leaving comfort behind, I think there were not in all the city four merrier people than the hungry little girls who gave away their breakfasts and contented themselves with bread and milk on Christmas morning.

Go out more, keep cheerful as well as busy, for you are the sunshine-maker of the family, and if you get dismal there is no fair weather.