I love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man.

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.

I asked for bread, and I got a stone in the shape of a pedestal.

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.

"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Every house needs a grandmother in it.

Six weeks is a long time to wait, and a still longer time for a girl to keep a secret.