...the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
The world has been busy for some centuries in shutting and locking every door through which a woman could step into wealth, except the door of marriage.
The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
Human nature is above all things lazy.
I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people's glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.