In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.

He was always thinking of his brother's soul, or of the souls of those who differed with him in opinion: it is a sort of comfort which many of the serious give themselves.

Vanity is often the unseen spur.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

At certain periods of life, we live years of emotion in a few weeks, and look back on those times as on great gaps between the old life and the new.

When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.