Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous. Friendships begin with liking or gratitude roots that can be pulled up. She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts. Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty. Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with. I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster. . The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.