“Better destroy the body than the soul.'" ~Rosamond”

“Better lose your life than your soul…”

“Ah, if I could only feel assured that it was right and not a blind impulse of a weak woman's heart!'" ~Rosamond”

“The scar will remain, but it is better for a man to lose both arms than his soul; and these hard years, instead of being lost, may be made the most precious of your lives, if they teach you to rule yourselves.”

“The emerging woman ... will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied...strength and beauty must go together.”

“Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.”

“Persuasive influences are better than any amount of moralizing.”