"We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence."
"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!"
"There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort."
"I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself."
"Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs."
"All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence forever."