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

Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.

His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind.

A girl's affections should never be won unsought.

What a fool you must be," said my head to my heart, or my sterner to my softer self.

I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other.

I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself .