Nobody Can Afford To Appear More Pleasant

She Believed In Letting Children Have A Certain Amount Of Rope, And Only Intervened At The Last Moment, In Order To Prevent Their Hanging Themselves By It.

We Cannot Alter Facts, But We Can Alter Our Ways Of Looking At Them.

We Do Good By Ourselves, But We Seldom Do Wrong Alone.

All Daughters, Even When Most Aggravated By Their Mothers, Have A Secret Respect For Them. They Believe Perhaps That They Can Do Everything Better Than Their Mothers Can, And Many Things They Can Do Better, But They Have Not Yet Lived Long Enough To Be Sure How Successfully They Will Meet The Major Emergencies Of Life, Which Lie, Sometimes Quite Creditably, Behind Their Mothers.

There Are Two Ways Of Meeting Difficulties: You Alter The Difficulties, Or You Alter Yourself To Meet Them.