Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.

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

Don't cry so bitterly, but remember this day, and resolve with all your soul that you will never know another like it.

If you dear little girls would only learn what real beauty is, and not pinch and starve and bleach yourselves out so, you'd save an immense deal of time and money and pain. A happy soul in a healthy body makes the best sort of beauty for man or woman.

All is fish that comes to the literary net. Goethe puts his joys and sorrows into poems, I turn my adventures into bread and butter.

Persuasive influences are better than any amount of moralizing.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.