My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire. I longed to kindle one! It seemed not so wild a dream.

There are many things in this world that a child must not ask about.

A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.

Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!

This above all: be true, be true, be true.

Shall we never never get rid of this Past? ... It lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body.

If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.