If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don't believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the gate. I always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the river.

... for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to be resisted.

I think immortality is the passing of a soul through many lives or experiences, and such as are truly lived, used and learned, help on to the next, each growing richer, happier and higher, carrying with it only the real memories of what has gone before.

Watch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fault.

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.

My book came out; and people began to think that topsy-turvy Louisa would amount to something after all.

You may try your experiment for a week and see how you like it. I think by Saturday night you will find that all play and no work is as bad as all work and no play

I think we are all hopelessly flawed.

I don't think it's fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty things, and other girls nothing at all.