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Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness it has no taste.

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One suffers in silence so long as one has the strength and when that strength fails one speaks without measuring one's words much.

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My sister Emily first declined. The details of her illness are deep-branded in my memory, but to dwell on them, either in thought or narrative, is not...more

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There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.

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I see you and St. John have been quarrelling, Jane,' said Diana, 'during your walk on the moor. But go after him; he is now lingering in the passage e...more

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I could not answer the ceaseless inward question-why I thus suffered; now, at the distance of-I will not say how many years, I see it clearly.

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St. John,” I said, “I think you are al­most wicked to talk so. I am dis­posed to be as con­tent as a queen, and you try to stir me up to rest­less­nes...more

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You are no ruin sir--no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about your roots, whether you ask them or not, because they...more

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To toil, to think, to long, to grieve,—Is such my future fate?The morn was dreary, must the eveBe also desolate?

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Our power of being happy lies a good deal in ourselves, I believe.

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. . . they would neither hate nor envy us if they did not deem us so much happier than themselves.

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I doubt if I have made the best use of all my calamities. Soft, amiable natures they would have refined to saintliness; of strong, evil spirits they w...more

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I replied that I did not quite know what my ailment had been, but that I had certainly suffered a good deal especially in mind. Further, on this subje...more

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I do not think the sunny youth of either will prove the forerunner of stormy age. I think it is deemed good that you two should live in peace and be h...more

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Happiness is the cure—a cheerful mind the preventive: cultivate both.