"Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection admits a sacrifice."

Next Quote

A lost love. Deny it who will, ridicule it, treat it as mere imagination and sentiment, the thing is and will be; and women do suffer therefrom, in all its infinite varieties: loss by death, by faithlessness or unworthiness, and by mistaken or unrequited affection.

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik