There's nothing like active employment, I suppose, to console the afflicted.

Life and hope must cease together.

I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be. All novels are or should be, written for both men and women to read, and I am at a loss to conceive how a man should permit himself to write anything that would be really disgraceful to a woman, or why a woman should be censured for writing anything that would be proper and becoming for a man.

I cannot love a man who cannot protect me.

I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.

A little girl loves her bird--Why? Because it lives and feels; because it is helpless and harmless? A toad, likewise, lives and feels, and is equally helpless and harmless; but though she would not hurt a toad, she cannot love it like the bird, with its graceful form, soft feathers, and bright, speaking eyes.

My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring and carried aloft on the wings of the breeze.