1. "There is a sacredness in tears. They are not a mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love."

Tears speak in places words cannot fill, and echo in places voices cannot reach. Reining down upon us something that is comprehensible in overwhelming proportions, but proportions that leave us otherwise muted.

2. "Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them."

In order to embody the greatest figments of our imagination, we must be persistent in our imagination against figments which imagine us as something less.

3. "Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart."

Whether come, or gone, there will always be a warm, and gentle place in our heart for our friends. A place warm, and gentle towards a sorrow that comes, and goes with them.

4. "A woman's whole life is a history of the affections."

Delivered beneath the context of the 1840s and 1850s, a time where women were prohibited from voting, discouraged to work, and expected to assume all duties of care towards their households, the most important matter of feminine affairs was to marry, and marry well. Thus, when one spoke and wrote of women then, it was often in the vein of loves realized, and loves that were never loves to being with.

5. "Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart."

Though it may remain unrealized, and lie in wait, in wait to be realized, love never remains. But returns to the place where first was loved. To love it will again.