“No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of thosewho are throughout persuaded of each other's worth”

“The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.”

“If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.”

“Give me a room whose every nook is dedicated to a book.”

“Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. They appear so while they are passing; they seem to have been so when we look back on them; and they take up more room in our memory than all the years that succeed them.”

“Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to be.(Southey's reply to Charlotte Bronte)”

“It is with words as with sunbeams, the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. ”