The wit of a family is usually best received among strangers.

There is no feeling, perhaps, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music,--that does not make a man sing or play the better.

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

We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.

But if Maggie had been that young lady, you would probably have known nothing about her: her life would have had so few vicissitudes that it could hardly have been written; for the happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

I shall do everything it becomes me to do.

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