The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed.

Say whatever your memory suggests is true; but add nothing and exaggerate nothing.

What necessity is there to dwell on the Past, when the Present is so much surer-the Future so much brighter?

I mean that I value vision, and dread being struck stone blind.

I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely blest -- blest beyond what language can express; because I am my husband's life as fully as he is mine.

I longed for a power of vision which might overpass that limit; which might reach the busy world, towns, regions full of life I had heard of but never seen: that I desired more of practical experience than I possessed; more of intercourse with my kind, of acquaintance with variety of character, than was here within my reach.

It did not seem as if a prop were withdrawn, but rather as if a motive were gone: it was not the power to be tranquil which had failed me, but the reason for tranquility was no more.