Every child's birthright is a happy home.

Love is like fire, a dangerous thing to play with, although the best of friends and the most loyal of servants when rightly handled.

A letter is the most imperishable thing on earth.

Let every birthday be a festival, a time when the gladness of the house finds expression in flowers, in gifts, in a little fête. Never should a birthday be passed over without note, or as if it were a common day, never should it cease to be a garlanded milestone in the road of life.

Broadly speaking, nervous women may be divided into two classes - those who are really nervous, and those who imagine themselves to be so.

Books have been to me what gold is to the miser, what new fields are to the explorer.

I thank you, God, in Heaven, for friends.