"I felt as if I had been buried under an avalanche and now the weight was lifted."
"I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself."
Solitude
"Whatever I do, I do with all my heart."
Perseverance
"I would not be you; not for all the world."
"One does as much harm by injuring self-respect as by anything else."
"To live without some object of love is to cease to live."
Love
"I am resolved to act with prudence and be calm."
Patience
"Forgiveness may be divine, but never, in my opinion, at the expense of justice."
Justice
"I felt as though I had been living a waking dream."
Imagination
"I must be careful of my actions with him."
"Reason remains, and I cling to reason."
"I never can bear to be laughed at."
"Hope, as a fresh leaf, opens before me."
Hope
"I could not turn, nor retrace one step."
"I am not talking to you now from curiosity, but from devotion."
Love
"My spirit addresses your spirit."
"I am better than I was last year; I am improving."
Change
"Suffering has strengthened and refined me."
Perseverance
"Mystery breathes round this mansion."
"I must guard against my own weakness."
"When I lost sight of him I lost hope."
"I am sustained by a conviction of the truth of my position."
"There is a power I feel which crushes my worth."
Fear
"I have crossed oceans of feeling unexamined."
"All within me is silent and still."
Peace
"I am not deceitful; if I were, I should say I love you."
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will."
Freedom
"I would always rather be happy than dignified."
Happiness
"Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion."
Wisdom
"Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs."
Wisdom