Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement..

cracked things often hold out as long as whole things; one takes so much better care of them!.

Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother..

When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour..

In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half, I still find myself a sel….

It is sad and wrong to be so dependent for the life of my life on any human being as I am on you; but I cannot by any force of logic cure myself at t….

On earth the living have much to bear; the difference is chiefly in the manner of bearing, and my manner of bearing is far from being the best..

A positive engagement to marry a certain person at a certain time, at all haps and hazards, I have always considered the most ridiculous thing on ear….