She must face her grief where the struggle is always hardest-in the place where each trivial object is attended by pleasant memories.

I have written chiefly because, though I have often dreaded the necessity, I have found it more painful, in the end, not to write.

Most women want their youth back again; but I wouldn't have mine back at any price. The worst years of my life are behind me, and my best ones ahead.

If broken hearts could kill, the earth would be as dead as the moon.

Surely one of the peculiar habits of circumstances is the way they follow, in their eternal recurrence, a single course. If an event happens once in a life, it may be depended upon to repeat later its general design.

There is no state of satisfaction, because to himself no man is a success.

I would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature.... I would write of characters, not of characteristics.