Better lose your life than your soul.
A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever.
But the spirit of Eve is strong in all her daughters.
I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now.
Jo's ambition was to do something very splendid; what it was she had no idea, as yet, but left it for time to tell her.
Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can