I have nothing to give but my heart so full and these empty hands." "They're not empty now.

Where the heart is the mind works best.

…to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world.

There are many Beths in the world, shy and quiet, sitting in corners till needed, and living for others so cheerfully that no one sees the sacrifices till the little cricket on the hearth stops chirping, and the sweet, sunshiny presence vanishes, leaving silence and shadow behind.

Education is not confined to books, and the finest characters often graduate from no college, but make experience their master, and life their book. [Some care] only for the mental culture, and [are] in danger of over-studying, under the delusion . . . that learning must be had at all costs, forgetting that health and real wisdom are better.

But please hug and kiss me, everyone, and don't mind my dress, I want a great many crumples of this sort put into it today.

I wish I had no heart, it aches so.