Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.

A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!

She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.

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.

The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view

There is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or evil, except at the very moment of execution.