We have all our secret sins; and if we knew ourselves we should not judge each other harshly.

Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid--too timid even to believe in the correctness of their own best promptings, when these would place them in a minority.

Melodies die out, like the pipe of Pan, with the ears that love them and listen for them.

I think there are stores laid up in our human nature that our understandings can make no complete inventory of.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

Whatever may be the success of my stories, I shall be resolute in preserving my incognito, having observed that a nom de plume secures all the advantages without the disagreeables of reputation.

Our thoughts are often worse than we are.