“We live in our desires rather than in our achievements”

“Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells!”

“The difficulty of life is in the choice.”

“So long as one does not despair so long as one doesn't look upon life bitterly things work out fairly well in the end.”

“Tis the last rose of summer. Left blooming alone.”

“Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.”

“I do not know where to go, but I have been on the road.”

“While she was in transit, being unattached was exhilarating, but the moment she stopped, so did the high.”

“The natural tenderness and delicacy of our constitution, added to the many dangers we are subject to from your sex, renders it almost impossible for a single lady to travel without injury to her ch...”