Hope died as I was led unto my marriage bed.
As He died to make men holy, let us live to make men free.
I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.
Don't you think that the best things are already in view?
I never could be good when I was not happy.
It is always legitimate to wish to rise above one's self, never above others.