I had a pleasant time with my mind, for it was happy.

Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning.

Don't laugh at the spinsters, dear girls, for often very tender, tragic romances are hidden away in the hearts that beat so quietly under the sober gowns, and many silent sacrifices of youth, health, ambition, love itself, make the faded faces beautiful in God's sight. Even the sad, sour sisters should be kindly dealt with, because they have missed the sweetest part of life, if for no other reason.

I never knew how much like heaven this world could be, when two people love and live for one another!

But buds will be roses, and kittens, cats - more's the pity.

The young people were playing that still more absorbing game in which hearts are always trumps.

A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever.