Fanny Fern Quotes

She said it was beautiful to be loved, and that it made everything on earth look brighter.

Never compel yourself to say words to which the heart yields no response.

Would a harsh word ever fall from lips which now breathed only love? Would the step whose lightest footfall now made her heart leap, ever sound in her ear like a death knell?

O, girls! set your affections on cats, poodles, parrots or lap-dogs; but let matrimony alone. It's the hardest way on earth to getting a living.