Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you.

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.

Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature.

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.