If you emerge from that sad place with thoughts of hatred and of wrath against mankind, you are deserving of pity; if you emerge with thoughts of good-will and of peace, you are more worthy than any one of us.

Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are the fields of battle which have their heroes; obscure heroes, who are, sometimes, grander than the heroes who win renown.

This is the shade of difference: the door of the physician should never be shut, the door of the priest should always be open.

Better be without sense, than misapply it as you do.

Better be happy old maids than unhappy wives, and teach your girls to be contented with the home you have, and the friends you keep, and the duties that lie nearest; make this home happy, so that you may be fit for homes of your own, if ever they come, and contented here if they are not.

If people care more for my clothes than they do for me, I don’t wish to see them; for I’d rather be what I am, and speak my mind, and do my work, than sit in silk and be stared at for a doll, when there’s honest living to be earned and honest words to be said.

Write something for us, and never mind the rest of the world; put the truth you know into it, and the love you have felt, and the little fun that keeps us alive, and you will find that hearts will answer to hearts, and the world will take what is good, and let the rest go.

I am angry nearly every day of my life, Jo, but I have learned not to show it, and I still hope to learn not to feel it…

We women are not cowards. We think, and we wait, and we work; and sometimes our waiting and our working save lives, though we do not go out with swords. If there is darkness, let me be of use in it, for courage is not only a man’s.

Remember, my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker.`

There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights; the light of all lights in this dark world is Love, and it shines most when men and women stand together and keep faith.

Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of themselves.