Be loving, and you will never want for love; be humble, and you will never want for guiding.

Better no marriage, than a marriage short of the best.

One only "right" we have to assert in common with mankind--and that is as much in our hands as theirs--is the right of having something to do.

absence ... smothers into decay a rootless fancy but often nourishes the least seed of a true affection into full-flowering love.

To have loved and lost, either by that total disenchantment which leaves compassion as the sole substitute for love which can exist no more, or by the slow torment which is obliged to let go day by day all that constitutes the diviner part of love - namely, reverence, belief, and trust, yet clings desperately to the only thing left it, a long-suffering apologetic tenderness - this lot is probably the hardest any woman can have to bear.

No virtue ever was founded on a lie. The truth, then, at all risks and costs - the truth from the beginning. Make a clean breast to whomsoever you need to make it, and then - face the world.

never was there a thoroughly noble nature without some romance in it.