My only answer is, if my grave stood open on one side and you upon the other I'd go into my grave before I would take one step to meet you.

She fell into the moody, miserable state of mind which often comes when strong wills have to yield to the inevitable.

... swept into the giddy vortex which keeps so many young people revolving aimlessly, till they go down or are cast upon the shore, wrecks of what they might have been

Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

If I didn't care about doing right and didn't feel uncomfortable doing wrong, I should get on capitally.

Now we are expected to be as wise as men who have had generations of all the help there is, and we scarcely anything.

It takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world.