If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.

Can anybody tell what sorrows are locked up with our best affections, or what pain may be associated with every pleasure?

the heaviest anguish often precedes a return tide of joy and courage.

What's your hurry?" Because now is the only time there ever is to do a thing in," said Miss Ophelia.

The person who decides what shall be the food and drink of a family, and the modes of its preparation, is the one who decides, to a greater or less extent, what shall be the health of that family.

The same quickness which makes a mind buoyant in gladness often makes it gentlest and most sympathetic in sorrow.

Sensitive people never like the fatigue of justifying their instincts.