"There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope."
"The progress of the world can certainly never come at all save by the modified action of the individual beings who compose the world."
"Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another."
"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
"Poor fellow! I think he is in love with you.'I am not aware of it. And to me it is one of the most odious things in a girl's life, that there must always be some supposition of falling in love coming between her and any man who is kind to her... I have no ground for the nonsensical vanity of fancying everybody who comes near me is in love with me."
"What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?"