Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow.
Love is apt to make lunatics of even men and saints.
Rome took all the vanity out of me; for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my foolish hopes in despair.
where I wholly love I wholly trust.
Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.
...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.