... the woman who grows up with the idea that she is simply to be an amiable animal, to be caressed and coaxed, is invariably a bitterly disappointed woman. A game of chess will cure such a conceit forever. The woman that knows the most, thinks the most, feels the most, is the most. Intellectual affection is the only lasting love. Love that has a game of chess in it can checkmate any man and solve the problem of life.

I must do something or I shall wear my heart away.

I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph.

I have sometimes sat alone here of an evening, listening, until I have made the echoes out to be the echoes of all the footsteps that are coming by and by into our lives. "Jerry, say that my answer was, 'RECALLED TO LIFE.

Now, I return to this young fellow. And the communication I have got to make is, that he has great expectations.

My imagination would never have served me as it has, but for the habit of commonplace, humble, patient, daily, toiling, drudging attention