…men never forgive like women.

If you feel your value lies in being merely decorative, I fear that someday you might find yourself believing that’s all that you really are. Time erodes all such beauty, but what it cannot diminish is the wonderful workings of your mind: Your humor, your kindness, and your moral courage. These are the things I cherish so in you. I so wish I could give my girls a more just world. But I know you’ll make it a better place." -- Marmee, Little Women

Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.

I shall keep my book on the table here, and read a little every morning as soon as I wake, for I know it will do me good, and help me through the day.

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

…I can't help seeing that you are very lonely, and sometimes there is a hungry look in your eyes that goes to my heart.

The young people were playing that still more absorbing game in which hearts are always trumps.