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

I rely on the promise, God is kind to women, fools, and drunk people.

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

cracked things often hold out as long as whole things; one takes so much better care of them!

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.