“Being prepared means much, being able to wait means more, but to make use of the right moment means everything
“It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment
“Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity
“Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us; footprints on the sands of time.
“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment
“Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
“You say you have thousands of my days; but I have thousands of moments, in which I can be merry and happy
“The longest day must have its close -the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day
“Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied
“The moment eternal - just that and no more - when ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core while cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet!
“The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family