Charlotte, having seen his body Borne before her on a shutter, Like a well-conducted person, Went on cutting bread and butter. - William Makepeace Thackeray

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name. A polite public will no more bear to read an authentic description of vice than a truly-refined English or American female will permit the word 'breeches' to be pronounced in her chaste hearing. And yet, madam, both are walking the world before our faces every day without much shocking us. If you were to blush every time they went by, what complexions you would have!

She lived in her past life- these relics and remembrances of dead affection were all that was left her in the world.