Love and Loyalty If ever men and women are their simplest, sincerest selves, it is when suffering softens the one, and sympathy strengthens the other.

...and best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander, where she liked, made the library a region of bliss to her.

Good, old-fashioned ways keep hearts sweet, heads sane, hands busy.

Elegance has a bad effect on my constitution.

He looked at her an instant, for the effect of the graceful girlish figure with pale, passionate face and dark eyes full of sorrow, pride and resolution was wonderfully enhanced by the gloom of the great room, and glimpses of a gathering storm in the red autumn sky.

Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.

Love is a flower that grows in any soil, works its sweet miracles undaunted by autumn frost or winter snow, blooming fair and fragrant all the year, and blessing those who give and those who receive.