Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.

Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

I tired of the routine of eight years in one afternoon.

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

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

I knew you would do me good in some way, at some time--I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you.

He is not to them what he is to me.