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

…she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.

We all have our own life to pursue, Our own kind of dream to be weaving... And we all have the power To make wishes come true, As long as we keep believing.

It takes very little fire to make a great deal of smoke nowadays, and notoriety is not real glory.

I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don't think any one will deny us.