I ask not for any crown But that which all may win; Nor try to conquer any world Except the one within.

. . . for when women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole.

A child her wayward pencil drew On margins of her book; Garlands of flower, dancing elves, Bud, butterfly, and brook, Lessons undone, and plum forgot, Seeking with hand and heart The teacher whom she learned to love Before she knew t'was Art.

But buds will be roses, and kittens, cats - more's the pity.

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.

Good, old-fashioned ways keep hearts sweet, heads sane, hands busy.

Energy is more attractive than beauty in a man.