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

Young people think they never can change, but they do in the most wonderful manner, and very few die of broken hearts.

Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.

…proved that woman isn't a half but a whole human being, and can stand alone.

It takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world.

I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don't think any one will deny us.

To be strong, and beautiful, and go round making music all the time. Yes, she could do that, and with a very earnest prayer Polly asked for the strength of an upright soul, the beauty of a tender heart, the power to make her life a sweet and stirring song, helpful while it lasted, remembered when it died.