I love your daughter fondly, dearly, disinterestedly, devotedly. If ever there were love in the world, I love her.

Without strong affection, and humanity of heart, and gratitude to that Being whose code is mercy, and whose great attribute is benevolence to all things that breathe, true happiness can never be attained.

Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me.

Never," said my aunt, "be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful of you.

A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.

She better liked to see him free and happy, even than to have him near her, because she loved him better than herself.

... when the locked door opens, and there comes in a young woman, deadly pale, and with long fair hair, who glides to the fire, and sits down in the chair we have left there, wringing her hands.