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!

I think immortality is the passing of a soul through many lives or experiences, and such as are truly lived, used and learned, help on to the next, each growing richer, happier and higher, carrying with it only the real memories of what has gone before.

I went [to war] because I couldn't help it. I didn't want the glory or the pay; I wanted the right thing done.

You are the gull, Jo, strong and wild, fond of the storm and the wind, flying far out to sea, and happy all alone.

But the spirit of Eve is strong in all her daughters.

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.

Right Jo better be happy old maids than unhappy wives or unmaidenly girls running about to find husbands.