I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to think of being married soon, and I should like everything to go on for a long while just as it is.

There's many a good bit o' work done with a sad heart.

I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.

Mankind is not disposed to look narrowly into the conduct of great victors when their victory is on the right side.

Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat; it turns timidity into fierce courage, and dreadless defiance into tremulous submission; it turns thoughtlessness into foresight, and yet stills all anxiety into calm content; it makes selfishness become self-denial, and gives even to hard vanity the glance of admiring love.

It is necessary to me, not simply to be but to utter, and I require utterance of my friends.

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.