If you feel your value lies in being merely decorative, I fear that someday you might find yourself believing that’s all that you really are. Time erodes all such beauty, but what it cannot diminish i...
I wish I had no heart, it aches so…
…feeling as if all the happiness and support of their lives was about to be taken from them.
I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.
Dear me! how happy and good we'd be, if we had no worries!
He was neither rich nor great, young nor handsome, - in no respect what is called fascinating, imposing or brilliant; and yet he was as attractive as a genial fire, and people seemed to gather about h...
…because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.
But, like all happiness, it did not last long,
…tomorrow was her birthday, and she was thinking how fast the years went by, how old she was getting, and how little she seemed to have accomplished. Almost twenty-five and nothing to show for it.
Life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.
I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain them.
I have nothing to give but my heart so full and these empty hands.They're not empty now.