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

I think we are all hopelessly flawed.

... because I have fallen in love with so many pretty girls and never once the least bit with any man.

Don't laugh at the spinsters, dear girls, for often very tender, tragic romances are hidden away in the hearts that beat so quietly under the sober gowns, and many silent sacrifices of youth, health, ambition, love itself, make the faded faces beautiful in God's sight. Even the sad, sour sisters should be kindly dealt with, because they have missed the sweetest part of life, if for no other reason.

Back to him she would never go, but in her lonely life still lived the sweet memory of that happy time when she believed in him and he was all in all to her.

Dear me! how happy and good we'd be, if we had no worries!

Young people think they never can change, but they do in the most wonderful manner, and very few die of broken hearts.