I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

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.

People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.

I don't think secrets agree with me, I feel rumpled up in mind since you told me that.

I only mean to say that I have a feeling that it never was intended I should live long. I'm not like the rest of you.

...and best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander, where she liked, made the library a region of bliss to her.

Love scenes, if genuine, are indescribable; for to those who have enacted them the most elaborate description seems tame, and to those who have not, the simplest picture seems overdone.