Fathers and mothers are too absorbed in business and housekeeping to study their children, and cherish that sweet and natural confidence which is a child's surest safeguard, and a parent's subtlest power.

We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.

But, like all happiness, it did not last long.

Money is a needful and precious thing, and when well used, a noble thing, but I never want you to think it is the first or only prize to strive for. I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queens on thrones, without self-respect and peace.

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

I think this power of living in our children is one of the sweetest things in the world.

I'm perfectly miserable; but if you consider me presentable, I die happy.