Gentlemen, be courteous to the old maids, no matter how poor and plain and prim, for the only chivalry worth having is that which is the readiest to to pay deference to the old, protect the feeble, an...
…men never forgive like women.
It’s bad enough to be a girl, anyway, when I like boys’ games and work and manners!
If you feel your value lies in being merely decorative, I fear that someday you might find yourself believing that’s all that you really are. Time erodes all such beauty, but what it cannot diminish i...
El mundo esta lleno de mujeres como Beth, timidas y tranquilas, que aguardan sentadas en un rincon hasta que alguien las necesita, que se entregan a los demas con tanta alegria que nadie ve su sacrifi...
Have regular hours for work and play make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few...
Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.
El amor expulsa al miedo y la gratitud doblega al orgullo.
Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants…
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…that's what old people are here for, — else their experience is of little use.
…on some occasions, women, like dreams, go by contraries.
There are things that mothers can manage best when they do their duty.
Six weeks is a long time to wait, and a still longer time for a girl to keep a secret…
What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?
…in silence learned the sweet solace which affection administers to sorrow.
The clocks were striking midnight and the rooms were very still as a figure glided quietly from bed to bed, smoothing a coverlid here, settling a pillow there, and pausing to look long and tenderly at...
Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow…
Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can
I don't want a religion that I put away with my Sunday clothes, and don't take out till the day comes around again; I want something to see and feel and live day by day.