I dare say there's many a woman makes as sad a mistake as I have done, and only finds it out too late.

Don't think to come over me with th' old tale, that the rich know nothing of the trials of the poor; I say, if they don't know, they ought to know.

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

I don't believe there's a man in Milton who knows how to sit still; and it is a great art.

Margaret had always dreaded lest her courage should fail her in any emergency, and she should be proved to be, what she dreaded lest she was--a coward. But now, in this real great time of reasonable fear and nearness of terror, she forgot herself, and felt only an intense sympathy--intense to painfulness--in the interests of the moment.

Anticipation was the soul of enjoyment.

She freshens me up above a bit. Who'd ha thought that face - as bright and as strong as the angel I dream of - could have known the sorrow she speaks on? I wonder how she'll sin. All on us must sing.