The best doctrine may become the worst, if imperfectly understood, erroneously interpreted, or superstitiously followed.

- Anna Leonowens

In how many lives there lurks a hidden romance or a hidden terror.

- Anna Leonowens

There is compensation in all things.

- Anna Leonowens

Confidence is a plant of slow growth.

- Anna Leonowens

the night of trouble is at times so dark that the interwoven gold with which Providence relieves the woof of calamity remains undiscovered.

- Anna Leonowens

The fact is remarkable, that though education in its higher degrees is popularly neglected in Siam, there is scarcely a man or woman in the empire wh…

- Anna Leonowens