Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day!

There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.

Tongue; well that's a wery good thing when it an't a woman.

And I am bored to death with it. Bored to death with this place, bored to death with my life, bored to death with myself.

The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self confidence and good humour.

I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left the forge, so, the evening mists were rising now, and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting from her.

Lawyers hold that there are two kinds of particularly bad witnesses--a reluctant witness, and a too-willing witness.