“It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed the deeper they burn.”

“It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed the deeper they burn.”

“A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.”

“No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.”

“Live as long as you may the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.”

“It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed the deeper they burn.”

“What will not woman gentle woman dare When strong affection stirs her spirit up?”

“It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions. They have their place in heaven also.”

“Is but the threshold of eternity.”

“As sure as God is good so surely there is no such thing as necessary evil.”

“Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to be.(Southey's reply to Charlotte Bronte)”

“Our restlessness in this world seems to indicate that we are intended for a better. We have all of us a longing after happiness”