Think now and then that there is a man who would give his life, to keep a life you love beside you.

Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it.

I would like to be going all over the kingdom...and acting everywhere. There's nothing in the world equal to seeing the house rise at you, one sea of delightful faces, one hurrah of applause!

Time has been lost and opportunity thrown away, but I am yet a young man, and may retrieve it.

I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me.

The citizen ... preserved the resolute bearing of one who was not to be frowned down or daunted, and who cared very little for any nobility but that of worth and manhood.

Never," said my aunt, "be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful of you.