…no person, no matter how vivid an imagination he may have, can invent anything half so droll as the freaks and fancies that originate in the lively brains of little people.

Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.

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 hearts.

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

leave him free, and the mere sense of liberty would content him, joined to the knowledge that his presence was dear to those whom he loved best.

Mothers have need of sharp eyes and discreet tongueswhen they have girls to manage

The day you forget about the poors, you become the poorest of the poor!

Be free and express yourself. Do what comes naturally.

My experiences thus far had me planning to throttle the first Tudor historian I met upon my return for gross dereliction of duty.

They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes.

When I finish a first draft, it's always just as much of a mess as it's always been. I still make the same mistakes every time.

There are no limits to what I would do to make my classes exciting, interesting, unpredictable.

We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.

I used to sleep on the floor in friends' rooms, returning Coke bottles for food, money, and getting weekly free meals at a local temple

A lot of people think I'm stuck up. Pretty much that I'm arrogant. I only do that when I'm on the field.

Though I have many words, What woman's satisfied, I am no longer faint Because at her side? O who could have foretold That the heart grows old?