“I can get on with wild beasts first-rate; but men rile me awfully…”

“I thought it was only a habit, easy to drop when I liked: But it is stronger than I; and sometimes I feel as if possessed of a devil that will get the better of me, try as I may”

“Money is a needful and precious thing, and when well used, a noble thing, but I never want you to think it is the first or only prize to strive for. I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queens on thrones, without self-respect and peace.”

“Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.”

“I can't get over my disappointment in not being a boy, and it's worse than ever now, for I'm dying to go and fight with Papa, and I can only stay home and knit like a poky old woman (Josephine)”

“Dear me! If only men and women would trust, understand and help as my children do, what a capital place `the world would be!”

“I do like men who come out frankly and own that they are not gods.”