Being a daughter is only half the equation; bearing one is the other.
True goodness is like the glow-worm in this, that it shines most when no eyes except those of heaven are upon it.
Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.
Children always turn towards the light. Oh that grown-up people in this world became like little children!
The next best thing to a very good joke is a very bad one.
A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity.
Many people make their own God; and he is much what the French may mean when they talk of le bon Dieu,--very indulgent, rather weak, near at hand when we want anything, but far away out of sight when we have a mind to do wrong. Such a God is as much an idol as if he were an image of stone.
Your home is whatever in this world you love more than you love yourself.
You get steely nerves playing poker.
I've lived on royalties all my life. It is the readers who have supported me.
I think people should give in to what they feel like doing at the time and be a raw animal.