A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.

Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

I think the effective use of quotation is an important point in the art of writing. Given sparingly, quotations serve admirably as a climax or as a corroboration, but when they are long and frequent, they seriously weaken the effect of a book. We lose sight of the writer - he scatters our sympathy among others than himself - and the ideas which he himself advances are not knit together with our impression of his personality.

autobiography at least saves a man or woman that the world is curious about from the publication of a string of mistakes called 'Memoirs.