We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
Uncomfortable thoughts must be got rid of by good intentions for the future.
Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.
Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat.
One of the tortures of jealousy is, that it can never turn away its eyes from the thing that pains it.
One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.