Very unfortunately, she had no husband. She had never had a husband, and therefore did not kill a husband.

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world.

For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away.

The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.

... evil was, perhaps, necessarily always more impressive than good.

all women, without in the least meaning it, consider every man they meet as a possible husband for themselves or for their best friend.

There is something about conscious tact that is very irritating.