People cannot be molded like clay.

Elegance has a bad effect on my constitution.

To most the end comes as naturally and simply as sleep.

When Emerson's library was burning at Concord, I went to him as he stood with the firelight on his strong, sweet face, and endeavored to express my sympathy for the loss of his most valued possessions, but he answered cheerily, 'Never mind, Louisa, see what a beautiful blaze they make! We will enjoy that now.' The lesson was one never forgotten and in the varied lessons that have come to me I have learned to look for something beautiful and bright.

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.

...for a girl with eyes like hers has a will and is not ruled by anyone but a lover.

Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.