It's no trifle at her time at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution.

Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.

... indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable.

Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature harmonise. The birds are consulting about their migrations, the trees are putting on the hectic or the pallid hues of decay, and begin to strew the ground, that one's very footsteps may not disturb the repose of earth and air, while they give us a scent that is a perfect anodyne to the restless spirit. Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

Many an irritating fault, many an unlovely oddity, has come of a hard sorrow.

The commonest man, who has his ounce of sense and feeling, is conscious of the difference between a lovely, delicate woman and a coarse one. Even a dog feels a difference in her presence.

There's many a good bit o' work done with a sad heart.