Suffering is also good, it makes a person rich in charachter.

People always think that happiness is a faraway thing … something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up.

A child forgets a time of hunger but never forgets the aching want of other things.

It was so simple that a flash of astonishment that felt like pain shot through her head. Education! That was it! It was education that made the difference! Education would pull them ut of the grame and dirt.

She had heard Papa sing so many songs about the heart; the heart that was breaking - was aching - was dancing -was heavy laden - that leaped for joy - that was heavy in sorrow - that turned over - that stood still. She really believed the heart actually did those things.

People looking up at her--at her smooth pretty vivacious face--had no way of knowing about the painfully articulated resolves formulating in her mind.

'Dear God,' she prayed, 'let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.'