The sweetest of all success is that which one wins by hard exertion.

In poor Rosamond's mind there was not room enough for luxuries to look small in.

The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.

Fatally powerful as religious systems have been, human nature is stronger and wider, and though dogmas may hamper they cannot absolutely repress its growth.

I am influenced at the present time by far higher considerations and by a nobler idea of duty than I ever was when I held the Evangelical belief.

It is difficult for woman to try to be anything good when she is not believed in.

Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.