Death was not to be a leap: it was to be a long descent under thickening shadows.

I think any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

It is a wonderful subduer-this need of love, this hunger of the heart.

It is impossible, to me at least, to be poetical in cold weather.

I shall do everything it becomes me to do.

"Heaven help us," said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.