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

youth is so insatiable of happiness, and has such sublimely insane faith in its own power to make happy and be happy!

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.

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 only thing that makes one place more attractive to me than another is the quantity of heart I find in it.