“I will be a Friend to you, and you shall take care of my Linen”

“How true is the observation that unrequited love turns to deepest hate.”

“O how can wicked men seem so steady and untouched with such black hearts, while poor innocents stand like malefactors before them!”

“...for my master, bad as I have thought him, is not half so bad as this woman.--To be sure she must be an atheist!”

“And what after all, is death?? 'Tis but a cessation from mortal life; 'tis but the finishing of an appointed course; the refreshing inn after a fatiguing journey; the end of a life of cares and tro...”

“Many a man has been ashamed of his wicked attempts, when he has been repulsed, that would never have been ashamed of them, had he succeeded.”

“If you have to do the work, do it well, with all your heart.”

“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all...”

“Trademark yourself with the mark of excellence.”

“work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it, because in fact everything in life does count on it.”

“Happiness [is] only real when shared”

“That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable.”

“Tell him that riches will not procure for you a single moment of happiness. Luxury consoles poverty alone, and at that only for a short time, until one becomes accustomed to it.”

“Darling, if I think of all I miss now, I will go crazy. I should not think of that. I only want to think of all that I still have, and then I am rich. Your spirit is always around me, in your diary...”

“A little house well filled a little land well tilled and a little wife well willed are great riches.”