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.

…I can't help seeing that you are very lonely, and sometimes there is a hungry look in your eyes that goes to my heart.

I have nothing to give but my heart so full and these empty hands." "They're not empty now.

Her beauty satisfied [his] artistic eye, her peculiarities piqued his curiosity, her vivacity lightened his ennui, and her character interested him by the unconscious hints it gave of power, pride and passion. So entirely natural and unconventional was she that he soon found himself on a familiar footing, asking all manner of unusual questions, and receiving rather piquant replies.

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.

Now I'm beginning to live a little and feel less like a sick oyster at low tide.

One of the sweet things about pain and sorrow is that they show us how well we are loved, how much kindness there is in the world, and how easily we can make others happy in the same way when they need help and sympathy.