“Names have a great influence on the destiny of the person, who bears the name”

“A teddy bear will give you love.A grizzly bear will give you a mauling.Some bears aren't just the same.”

“The morning was bright and propitious. Before their departure, mass had been said in the chapel, and the protection of St. Ignatius invoked against all contingent evils, but especially against bear...”

“Such was the hidden power of nature, capable of producing extreme beauty and cruelty at the same time.”

“We must believe that there are places where tranquility exists and nature is given back her power to speak...”

“She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, feared at tea-parties, hated in shops, and loved at crises.”

“For we think back through our mothers if we are women.”

“He is a young man with a future of power and opportunity and we are young women destined to be either wives and mothers at the very best, or spinster parasites at the worst.”