Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her scribbling suit, and fall into a vortex, as she expressed it, writing away at her novel with all her heart and soul, for till that was finished she could find no peace.

Energy is more attractive than beauty in a man.

Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.

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.

Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.

Six weeks is a long time to wait, and a still longer time for a girl to keep a secret.

Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can