"Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!"
"[O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine."
"It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it."
"I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience."
"And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame."
"The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye."