Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.

the less one does, as I long ago observed, the less one can find time to do.

A fashionable wife! Oh! Never will I be anything so heartless! I have pictured for myself a far higher destiny than this. - Will it ever be more than a picture?

all griefs, when there is no bitterness in them, are soothed down by time.

The longer one lives in this hard world motherless, the more a mother's loss makes itself felt.

Teaching, I find, is not the most amusing thing on earth; in fact, with a stupid lump for a Pupil, it is about the most irksome.

I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for.