“...a capital patient, as she never died and never got well.”

“Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.”

“…she never had what she wanted till she had given up hoping for,' said Mrs. Meg.”

“Young people think they never can change, but they do in the most wonderful manner, and very few die of broken hearts.”

“She never knew that Mr. Laurence opened his study door to hear the old-fashioned airs he liked. She never saw Laurie mount guard in the hall to warn the servants away. She never suspected that the exercise books and new songs which she found in the rack were put there for her special benefit, and when he talked to her about music at home she only thought how kind he was to tell things that helped her so much. So she enjoyed herself heartily, and found, what isn't always the case, that her granted wish was all she had hoped. Perhaps it was because she was so grateful for this blessing that a greater was given her. At any rate she deserved both.”

“Back to him she would never go, but in her lonely life still lived the sweet memory of that happy time when she believed in him and he was all in all to her.”

“Watch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fault.”