There is no running away from a great grief.

... they know little of the passions who seek to argue with that most intractable of them all, the fear that is born of love.

No fear of forgetting the good-humoured faces that meet us in our walks each day.

The slightest emotion of disinterested kindness that passes through the mind improves and refreshes that mind, producing generous thought and noble feeling, as the sun and rain foster your favourite flowers. Cherish kind wishes, my children; for a time may come when you may be enabled to put them in practice.

Autumn glows upon us like a splendid evening; it is the very sunset of the year.

Fashion is a capricious deity.

She was the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly ever.