The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are, --/ Never read a book that is not a year old./ Never read any but the famed books./ Never read any but what you like.

Worst, when this sensualism intrudes into the education of young women, and withers the hope and affection of human nature, by teaching that marriage signifies nothing but a housewife's thrift, and that woman's life has no other aim.

There comes a period of the imagination to each--a later youth--the power of beauty, the power of looks, of poetry.

Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.

There are days when the great are near us, when there is no frown on their brow, no condescension even; when they take us by the hand, and we share their thought.

We can only be valued as we make ourselves valuable.

If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more.