So there's this one book I bought many years ago from the dollar table at a public library.  I've only ever skimmed through it when I first bought it, but just yesterday took it off of my bookshelf to use during the library scene in the show I'm doing at St. Gabe's.  The book itself is titled What a Young Woman Ought to Know and was published in 1905.  Needless to say, it has a lot of laughable information about how a woman should behave and care for herself and even gives advice about the proper course of engagements and marriage.

While thumbing through it this morning I found a handwritten note on one of the last pages (scrawled from an old-fashioned ink pen no doubt) that read:

Where friendship full exerts her softest power,
Perfect desire enlivened by ineffable, and sympathy of soul:
Thought meeting thought, and will preventing will,
With boundless confidence;
For naught but love can answer love,
and render bliss secure.

-- Thomson

Apparently it's from a poem called "The Seasons" by James Thomson, written in 1876.  Interesting.