Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can
Resolved to take fate by the throat and shake a living out of her.
Girls could do most things as well as boys, and some things better.
...a capital patient, as she never died and never got well.
The scar will remain, but it is better for a man to lose both arms than his soul; and these hard years, instead of being lost, may be made the most precious of your lives, if they teach you to rule yourselves.
Woman work a great many miracles.