When pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.
You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope.
What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!
To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.
Time will explain.
There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison.
One man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best.
One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.
None of us expect to be in smooth water all our days.
My sore-throats, you know, are always worse than anybody’s.
Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.
