Six weeks is a long time to wait, and a still longer time for a girl to keep a secret.

We've got minds and souls as well as hearts; ambition and talents as well as beauty and accomplishments; and we want to live and learn as well as love and be loved. I'm sick of being told that is all a woman is fit for! I won't have anything to do with love until I prove that I am something beside a housekeeper and a baby-tender!

Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.

She fell into the moody, miserable state of mind which often comes when strong wills have to yield to the inevitable.

Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.

it was easier to do a friendly thing than it was to stay and be thanked for it.

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.