Elegance has a bad effect on my constitution.

Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want.

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

I could have been a great many things.

Mothers can forgive anything!

…tomorrow was her birthday, and she was thinking how fast the years went by, how old she was getting, and how little she seemed to have accomplished. Almost twenty-five and nothing to show for it.

…marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties.