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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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