I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain them.

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.

I could have been a great many things.

...and best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander, where she liked, made the library a region of bliss to her.

Money is a needful and precious thing, and when well used, a noble thing, but I never want you to think it is the first or only prize to strive for. I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queens on thrones, without self-respect and peace.

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

I'm afraid I couldn't like him without a spice of human naughtiness.