Dolls are safe companions.

I don't worry about the storms, I am learning to sail my own ship.

I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain them.

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

strength and beauty must go hand in hand

Love scenes, if genuine, are indescribable; for to those who have enacted them the most elaborate description seems tame, and to those who have not, the simplest picture seems overdone.

It takes two flints to make a fire.