“A Friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us.”

“Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.”

“I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.”

“We are sometimes made aware of a kindness long passed, and realize that there have been times when our friends' thoughts of us were of so pure and lofty a character that they passed over us like the winds of heaven unnoticed; when they treated us not as what we were, but as what we aspired to be.”

“The book exists for us perchance which will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered. These same questions that disturb and puzzle and confound us have in their turn occurred to all the wise men; not one has been omitted; and each has answered them, according to his ability, by his words and his life.”

“There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.”

“let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature.”