Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless; nay, the speech they have resolved not to make.

What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life – to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to thin of being married soon...and I should like everything to go on for a long while just as it is.

It will never rain roses. When we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.

It's never too late to become what you might have been.

It is never too late to be what you might have been

Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love that makes life and nature harmonize.

The reward of one duty done is the power to fulfill another.

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had no childhood in it.

The mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man.