“Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.”

“Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable.”

“I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one. ”

“Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart”

“There is no friendship, no love, like that of the mother for the child.”

“Books are the windows through which the soul looks out. A home without books is like a room without windows.”

“The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.”