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.

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

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

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

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.

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