A real gentleman is as polite to a little girl as to a woman.
A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever.
Be worthy love, and love will come.
Conceit spoils the finest genius.
Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it.
Housekeeping ain't no joke.
I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.
If I didn't care about doing right and didn't feel uncomfortable doing wrong, I should get on capitally.
If you dear little girls would only learn what real beauty is, and not pinch and starve and bleach yourselves out so, you'd save an immense deal of time and money and pain. A happy soul in a healthy body makes the best sort of beauty for man or woman.
It takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of this world.
It takes two flints to make a fire.
Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.
Love is a great beautifier.
Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.
Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.
Nothing is impossible to a determined woman.
Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself.
Our actions are in our own hands, but the consequences of them are not.
Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow...
Strong convictions precede great actions.
Talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so.
The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed.
There is always light behind the clouds.
We don't choose our talents; but we needn't hide them in a napkin because they are not just what we want.
What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?
When I had youth I had no money; now I have the money I have no time; and when I get the time, if I ever do, I shall have no health to enjoy life.
Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.
Work is and always has been my salvation and I thank the Lord for it.
Young men often laugh at the sensible girls whom they secretly respect, and affect to admire the silly ones whom they secretly despise, because earnestness, intelligence, and womanly dignity are not the fashion.
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