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

No, thank you, I don't mind the rain,' I said. I always lacked common sense when taken by surprise.

I am truly miserable - more so than I like to acknowledge to myself. Pride refuses to aid me. It has brought me into the scrape, and will not help me out of it.

If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.

I’ll promise to think twice before I take any important step you seriously disapprove of.

I had been seasoned by adversity, and tutored by experience, and I longed to redeem my lost honour in the eyes of those whose opinion was more than that of all the world to me.

It is painful to doubt the sincerity of those we love.