The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools.

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?

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

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

In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half, I still find myself a self-subsisting and alas! self-seeking me.

On earth the living have much to bear; the difference is chiefly in the manner of bearing, and my manner of bearing is far from being the best.

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