The best travel is that which one can take by one's own fireside. In memory or imagination.

We have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

Love supreme defies all sophistry.

In the first moments when we come away from the presence of death, every other relation to the living is merged, to our feeling, in the great relation of a common nature and a common destiny.

It is better sometimes not to follow great reformers of abuses beyond the threshold of their homes.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.