... 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.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Animals are such agreeable friends.

One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.

The fact is, both callers and work thicken - the former sadly interfering with the latter.

in certain crises direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy.

Those bitter sorrows of childhood!-- when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless.