John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage.

But I MUST say what I feel and think in some way — it is such a relief! But the effort is getting to be greater than the relief.

I am glad my case is not serious! But these nervous troubles are dreadfully depressing. John does not know how much I really suffer. He knows there is no reason to suffer, and that satisfies him.

Now why should that man have fainted? But he did, and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time!

Nobody would believe what an effort it is to do what little I am able, - to dress and entertain, and order things

It is so hard to talk with John about my case, because he is so wise, and because he loves me so.

While she was light and sunshine, he was nothing but clouds and darkness.

The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure is too great for his income of ideas.

It is possible to wish so greatly for the unattained that in time you believe it has been won - indeed, you can even remember the winning of it.

I think we’re [men and women] more similar. In that we all deal with our fantasy lives and sometimes are disappointed by reality.

There are periods that we forget that in the pursuit of fruit, that if we just abide in Him, then fruitfulness is a guarantee.

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food

The workshop of character is everyday life.

She was just a shell of her former self, functioning and talking but hardly alive.

All you really need to do is shift people just a tiny bit for change to happen. It doesn't have to be huge and humongous.

The hardest job of all is trying to look busy when you're not.