I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.

What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!

She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.

Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circumstances requiring fortitude and strength of mind, if she have not resolution enough to resist idle interference ... It is the worst evil of too yielding and indecisive a character, that no influence over it can be depended on. You are never sure of a good impression being durable; everybody may sway it. Let those who would be happy be firm.