If fun is good, truth is still better, and love best of all.

Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise--a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.

Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?

In effective womanly beauty form is more than face, and manner more than either.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

He who meanly admires a mean thing is a snob--perhaps that is a safe definition of the character.