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.

No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you.

Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat.

The sweetest of all success is that which one wins by hard exertion.

All things journey: sun and moon, Morning, noon, and afternoon, Night and all her stars; 'Twixt the east and western bars Round they journey, Come and go! We go with them!

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.