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If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

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But when one does not complain, and when one wants to master oneself with a tyrant’s grip — one’s faculties rise in revolt — and one pays for outward ...more

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As far as my experience of matrimony goes -- I think it tends to draw you out of, and away from yourself.

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Those who live in retirement, whose lives have fallen amid the seclusion of schools or of other walled-in and guarded dwellings, are liable to be sudd...more

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The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.

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It is true I little respect women or girls who are loquacious either in boasting the triumphs, or bemoaning the mortifications, of feelings.

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One suffers in silence so long as one has the strength and when that strength fails one speaks without measuring one's words much.

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Your mind is my treasure, and if it were broken, it would be my treasure still

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Why can she not influence him more, when she is privileged to drawso near to him?” I asked myself. “Surely she cannot truly like him, or notlike him w...more

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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 ...more

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He turned away; he threw himself on his face on the sofa. 'Oh, Jane! my hope - my love - my life!' broke in anguish from his lips.

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I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first ...more

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But as his wife - at his side always, and always restrained, and always checked - forced to keep the fire of my nature continually low, to compel it t...more

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Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.

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... your grasp, even in fury, would have a charm for me...