“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.”

“But when one does not complain, and when one wants to master oneself with a tyrant’s grip — one’s faculties rise in revolt — and one pays for outward calm with an almost unbearable inner struggle.”

“I remembered Grandmere Catherine used to tell me your first impressions about people usually prove to be the truest because your heart is the first to react.”

“Sometimes doing the right thing does take more courage, but the feeling it gives you deep inside makes it worth it.”

“We're better off not worrying about ourselves, and to do that, we have to worry about others.”