Amy

“A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“Nothing refines like affection. Family jarring vulgarizes - family union elevates.”
― Charlotte Brontë

“In love afairs, there is no mediator like a merry, simple-hearted child - ever ready to cement divided hearts, to span the unfriendly gulf of custom, to melt the ice of cold reserve, and overthrow the separating walls of dread formality and pride.”
― Anne Brontë

“Every mother should be a true artist, who knows how to weave into her child's life images of grace and beauty, the true poet capable of writing on the soul of childhood the harmony of love and truth, and teaching it how to produce the grandest of all poems - the poetry of a true and noble life.”
― Frances Ellen Watkins Harper