My future husband was becoming to me my whole world; and more than the world: almost my hope of heaven. He stood between me and every thought of religion, as an eclipse intervenes between man and the broad sun. I could not, in those days, see God for His creature: of whom I had made an idol.

Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes.

"Do you like him much?" "I told you I liked him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so very much: he is full of faults." "Is he?" "All boys are." "More than girls?" "Very likely."

Propensities and principles must be reconciled by some means.

Look twice before you leap.

Neither birth nor sex forms a limit to genius.

Talented people almost always know full well the excellence that is in them.