Cast your bread upon the waters, and after many days it will come back buttered.

The girls gave their hearts into their mother's keeping-their souls into their father's; and to both parents, who lived and labored so faithfully for them, they gave a love that grew with their growth, and bound them tenderly together by the sweetest tie which blesses life and outlives death.

Where's the use of looking nice, when no one sees me but those cross midgets, and no one cares whether I'm pretty or not?

My book came out; and people began to think that topsy-turvy Louisa would amount to something after all.

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

Where the heart is the mind works best.

Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow.