"Salemina is so English! I can’t think how she manages. She is, in fact, more than English; she is British."

"Nothing .. can blot from my memory the profound, searching, and exhaustive analysis of a great nation which I learned…"

"Aunt Celia is one of those persons who are born to command, and when they are thrown in contact with those who are bo…"

"Lord, I do not ask that Thou shouldst give me wealth; only show me where it is, and I will attend to the rest."

""She has a nice ladylike appearance, but when she takes her bonnet off she looks seventy years old.” “She ought to ke…"

"Miranda Sawyer had a heart, of course, but she had never used it for any other purpose than the pumping and circulati…"

"Great, wide, beautiful, wonderful World,"

"The soul grows into lovely habits as easily as into ugly ones, and the moment a life begins to blossom into beautiful…"

"She was fairly good at any kind of housework not demanding brains. (Chapter 20)"

""Mr. Popham is a Methodist and I'm a Congregationalist, but I say let the children go where they like, so I always ta…"