I think we are all hopelessly flawed.

Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.

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

Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.

The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.

To be strong, and beautiful, and go round making music all the time. Yes, she could do that, and with a very earnest prayer Polly asked for the strength of an upright soul, the beauty of a tender heart, the power to make her life a sweet and stirring song, helpful while it lasted, remembered when it died.