I am angry nearly every day of my life, but I have learned not to show it; and I still try to hope not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do it.

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.

I can get on with wild beasts first-rate; but men rile me awfully.

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

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

Don't cry so bitterly, but remember this day, and resolve with all your soul that you will never know another like it.

Go on with your work as usual, for work is a blessed solace.