New England is quite as large a lump of earth as my heart can really take in.

Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.

Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.

Death was too definite an object to be wished for or avoided.

When romances do really teach anything, or produce any effective operation, it is usually through a far more subtle process than the ostensible one. The author has considered it hardly worth his while, therefore, relentlessly to impale the story with its moral as with an iron rod-or, rather, as by sticking a pin through a butterfly-thus at once depriving it of life, and causing it to stiffen in an ungainly and unnatural attitude.

Nervous and excitable persons need to talk a great deal, by way of letting off their steam.

The love of science to rival the love of woman, in its depth and absorbing energy.