Persuasive influences are better than any amount of moralizing.

He was the first, the only love her life, and in a nature like hers such passions take deep root and die-hard.

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

The girls gave their hearts into their mother's keeping-their souls into their father's; and to both parents, who lived and labored so faithfully for them, they gave a love that grew with their growth, and bound them tenderly together by the sweetest tie which blesses life and outlives death.

Liberty is a better husband than love to many of us.

…proved that woman isn't a half but a whole human being, and can stand alone.

books have been my greatest comfort, castle-building a never-failing delight, and scribbling a very profitable amusement.