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

Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement.

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?

When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.

Not a hundredth part of the thoughts in my head have ever been or ever will be spoken or written — as long as I keep my senses, at least.

The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.

Homeopathy - an invention of the Father of Lies! I have tried it and found it wanting. I would swallow their whole doles medicine chest for sixpence, and be sure of finding myself neither better nor worse for it.