The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Souls have complexions too: what will suit one will not suit another

The best part of a woman's love is worship; but it is hard to her to be sent away with her precious spikenard rejected, and her long tresses, too, that were let fall, ready to soothe the wearied feet.

He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself.

Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right.

... there is a lightness about the feminine mind--a touch and go--music, the fine arts, that kind of thing--they should study those up to a certain point, women should; but in a light way, you know.

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.