It is a hard, embittering thing to have one's kind feelings and good intentions cast back in one's teeth.

God will judge us by our own thoughts and deeds, not by what others say about us.

What a fool you must be," said my head to my heart, or my sterner to my softer self.

Then, you must fall each into your proper place. You'll do your business, and she, if she's worthy of you, will do hers; but it's your business to please yourself, and hers to please you.

I was not really angry: I felt for him all the time, and longed to be reconciled; but I determined he should make the first advances, or at least show some signs of an humble and contrite spirit, first; for, if I began, it would only minister to his self-conceit, increase his arrogance, and quite destroy the lesson I wanted to give him.

And why should he interest himself at all in my moral and intellectual capacities: what is it to him what I think and feel?' I asked myself. And my heart throbbed in answer to the question.

the best compliment to a mother is to appreciate her little one.