Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.

But many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. That does not lessen their beauty.

The emerging woman ... will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied...strength and beauty must go together.

Every house needs a grandmother in it.

I often think flowers are the angels' alphabet whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious and beautiful lessons for us to feel and learn.

Now and then genius carries all before it, but not often. We have to climb slowly, with many slips and falls.

But buds will be roses, and kittens, cats - more's the pity.