I attribute my good fortune to the simple fact that I have always tried to write straight from my own heart to the hearts of others.

the world is not always kind to a clever woman even when she is visibly known to be earning her own living. There are always spiteful tongues wagging in the secret corners and byways, ready to assert that her work is not her own and and that some man is in the background, helping to keep her!

There is no wealth but love.

work is happiness. No one can take my work from me and therefore no one can take my happiness from me.

I attribute my good fortune to the simple fact that I have always tried to write straight from my own heart to the hearts of others.

For though there never was so much reading matter put before the public, there was never less actual 'reading' in the truest and highest sense of the term than there is at present.

Years should be nothing to you. Who asked you to count them or consider them? In the world of wild Nature, time is measured by seasons only-the bird does not know how old it is-the rose-tree does not count its birthdays!