“Nature seemed to me benign and good; I thought she loved me, outcast as I was; and I, who from man could anticipate only mistrust, rejection, insult, clung to her with filial fondness. To-night at ...”

“But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!”

“I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.”

“I knew you would do me good in some way, at some time--I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you.”

“The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.”

“As far as my experience of matrimony goes -- I think it tends to draw you out of, and away from yourself.”

“There are many things that make a man irritable when he arrives home from work in the evening and a sensible wife will usually notice the storm-signals and will leave him alone until he simmers down.”

“Oblivion, she thought. That was the world she lived in. It was what they should name some countries, towns, and places.”

“A lot of men wouldn't like being called a romantic. It's not macho enough.'Quite often men are fools.”