I don't like favors; they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I'd rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent.

... swept into the giddy vortex which keeps so many young people revolving aimlessly, till they go down or are cast upon the shore, wrecks of what they might have been

Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow.

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.

The female population exceeds the male, you know, especially in New England, which accounts for the high state of culture we are in, perhaps.

Nothing is impossible to a determined woman.

Power is a dangerous thing. Be careful that you don't abuse it or let it make a tyrant of you.