If we are all alive ten years hence, let's meet, and see how many of us have got our wishes, or how much nearer we are then than now.

I wish I had no heart, it aches so.

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.

There was a good deal of laughing and kissing and explaining, in the simple, loving fashion which makes these home-festivals so pleasant at the time, so sweet to remember long afterward, and then all fell to work.

For with eyes made clear by many tears, and a heart softened by the tenderest sorrow, she recognized the beauty of her sister's life—uneventful, unambitious, yet full of the genuine virtues which 'smell sweet, and blossom in the dust', the self-forgetfulness that makes the humblest on earth remembered soonest in heaven, the true success which is possible to all.

She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.

No woman should give her happiness into the keeping of a man without fixed principles.