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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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