The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed.

We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.

ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.

Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.

Prosperity suits some people, and they blossom best in a glow of sunshine; others need the shade, and are the sweeter for a touch of frost.

I want to do something splendid… Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead… I think I shall write books.

Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.

What do girls do who haven’t any mothers to help them through their troubles?

Resolved to take fate by the throat and shake a living out of her

I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it’s good for me…

…what splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bubbles burst.

…the love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my efforts to be the woman I would have them copy.

Work is and always has been my salvation and I thank the Lord for it.

…freedom being the sauce best beloved by the boyish soul.

But, like all happiness, it did not last long…

It takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there should be any wistful faces, empty hands, or lonely little...

I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.

Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors.

There are things that mothers can manage best when they do their duty.