I am no bird and no net ensnares me I am a free human being with an independent will.

Hurried...like one who had always a multiplicity of tasks on hand.

Our honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.

You know full well as I do the value of sisters’ affections; there is nothing like it in this world.

I avoid looking forward or backward and try to keep looking upward.

Flirting is a woman's trade, one must keep in practice.

Conventionality is not morality. Self- righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns.

Unloved­ I love / unwept­ weep / Grief I restrain ­hope I repress.

I think it a glorious thing to have the hope of living with you, because I love you.

Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! may your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine. May you never appeal to heaven in prayers so hopeless and so agonized as in that hour left my lips: for never may you, like me, dread to be the instrument of evil to what you wholly love.