I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense...

The shorter and the plainer the better.

With opportunity the world is very interesting.

I am worn to a raveling.

I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding

I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.

I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.