Ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.

...a capital patient, as she never died and never got well.

I think immortality is the passing of a soul through many lives or experiences, and such as are truly lived, used and learned, help on to the next, each growing richer, happier and higher, carrying with it only the real memories of what has gone before.

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

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

. . . 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.

Many argue; not many converse.