Perhaps nothing ud be a lesson to us if it didn't come too late. It's well we should feel as life's a reckoning we can't make twice over; there's no real making amends in this world, any more nor you can mend a wrong subtraction by doing your addition right.

Miserliness is a capital quality to run in families; it's the safe side for madness to dip on.

... learning to love any one is like an increase of property, -- it increases care, and brings many new fears lest precious things should come to harm.

Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat.

The greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies.

Receptiveness is a rare and massive power, like fortitude.

Love supreme defies all sophistry.