Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive.

To prolong doubt was to prolong hope.

Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.

Let your performance do the thinking.

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

We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence.

I am very happy, Jane; and when you hear that I am dead, you must be sure and not grieve: there is nothing to grieve about. We all must die one day, and the illness which is removing me is not painful; it is gentle and gradual: my mind is at rest. I leave no one to regret me much: I have only a father; and he is lately married, and will not miss me. By dying young, I shall escape great sufferings. I had not qualities or talents to make my way very well in the world: I should have been continually at fault.