I never knew how much like heaven this world could be, when two people love and live for one another!

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.

It is never too early to try and plant [good principles] in a child, and never too late to cultivate them in the most neglected person.

Beth could not reason upon or explain the faith that gave her courage and patience to give up life, and cheerfully wait for death. Like a confiding child, she asked no questions, but left everything to God and nature, Father and Mother of us all, feeling sure that they, and they only, could teach and strengthen heart and spirit for this life and the life to come.

Now I'm beginning to live a little and feel less like a sick oyster at low tide.

Love is apt to make lunatics of even men and saints.

I'd have a stable full of Arabian steeds, rooms piled with books, and I'd write out of a magic inkstand, so that my works should be as famous as Laurie's music. I want to do something splendid before I go into my castle,-something heroic, or wonderful,-that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I don't know what, but I'm on the watch for it, and mean to astonish you all, some day. I think I shall write books, and get rich and famous; that would suit me, so that is my favorite dream.