"There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me."

"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."

"And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in."

"When pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure."

"We do not suffer by accident."

"It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before."