I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!

But this night our feet must tread in thorny paths, or later, and for ever, the feet you love must walk in paths of flame!

She has man's brain--a brain that a man should have were he much gifted--and woman's heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me when He made that so good combination.

Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.

I want to cut off her head and take out her heart.

A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.

Oh, my dear, if you only knew how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who would laugh. I have learned not to think little of any one's belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane.