Be worthy love, and love will come. - Louisa May Alcott

But it did her good, for those whose opinion had real value gave her the criticism which is an author's best education; and when the first soreness was over, she could laugh at her poor little book, yet believe in it still, and feel herself the wiser and stronger for the buffeting she had received.

Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

I will make a battering-ram of my head and make a way through this rough-and-tumble world.