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

Sunlight is painting.

The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

She wanted—what some people want throughout life—a grief that should deeply touch her, and thus humanize and make her capable of sympathy.

The fiend in his own shape is less hideous than when he rages in the breast of men.

And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.