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.

She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.

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.

I want to do something splendid…
Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead…
I think I shall write books.

She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain