. . . for when women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole.

I wish I had no heart, it aches so.

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.

But, like all happiness, it did not last long.

Nothing remained but loneliness and grief.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.