He made me love him without looking at me.
When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should – so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again.
Remorse is the poison of life.
Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.
The charm of variety there was not, nor the excitement of incident; but I liked peace so well, and sought stimulus so little, that when the latter came I almost felt it a disturbance, and rather still wished it had held aloof.
I can only say with deeper sincerity and fuller significance what I have always said in theory Wait God’s will.
Talented people almost always know full well the excellence that is in them.
What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.
Reader, I literally married him.
The man of regular life and rational mind never despairs.
Liberty lends us her wings and Hope guides us by her star.
I like rudeness a great deal better than flattery.
I wished critics would judge me as an author, not as a woman.
Adversity is a good school.
I have for the first time found what I can truly love- I have found you. You are my sympathy-my better self-my good angel-I am bound to you with a strong attachment.
No mockery in the world ever sounds to me as hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure.
Old maids like the houseless and unemployed poor, should not ask for a place and an occupation in the world: the demand disturbs the happy and the rich.
Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life.
I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last.
We wove a web in childhood, A web of sunny air; We dug a spring in infancy Of water pure and fair; We sowed in youth a mustard seed, We cut an almond rod; We are now grown up to riper age? Are they withered in the sod?