I like rudeness a great deal better than flattery.

Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day.

A new chapter in a novel is something like a new scene in a play.

Love me, then, or hate me, as you will," I said at last, "you have my full and free forgiveness: ask now for God's, and be at peace.

Sometimes I have the strangest feeling about you. Especially when you are near me as you are now. It feels as though I had a string tied here under my left rib where my heart is, tightly knotted to you in a similar fashion. And when you go to Ireland, with all that distance between us, I am afraid that this cord will be snapped, and I shall bleed inwardly.

I think I must admit so fair a guest when it asks entrance to my heart.

I have for the first time found what I can truly love- I have found you. You are my sympathy-my better self-my good angel-I am bound to you with a strong attachment.