Your excellent understanding will work clear your spirits presently.

Some of those whom you think enviable, if they showed you their secret griefs, unsuspected by you, would leave tears in your eyes for _them_, not _you_.

Every heart knows its own bitterness, and God knows when the bitterest drop is necessary for the heart's health.

May He bless you, love you, teach you, strengthen you, make you serene and bright in Him, dear, dear Isa.

I have spoken as to a sister; I have spoken as to my own soul in an hour of faintness.