Pleasure for others is the only pleasure possible to me. I assure you I'm quite selfish! - I'm greedy for the happiness of those I love - and if they can't or won't be happy I'm perfectly miserable.

Hate is a grand, a strong quality! It makes nations, it builds up creeds! If men loved one another what should they need of a Church?

It is not so difficult to win love as to keep it!

Flowers are like visible messages from God.

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!

You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work; and you have so much beautiful work to do. The world needs it, and you must give it!