Reflect upon your present blessings

That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.

One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind.

Morning drew on apace. The air became more sharp and piercing, as its first dull hue: the death of night, rather than the birth of day: glimmered faintly in the sky. The objects which had looked dim and terrible in the darkness, grew more and more defined, and gradually resolved into their familiar shapes. The rain came down, thick and fast; and pattered, noisily, among the leafless bushes.

An observer of men who finds himself steadily repelled by some apparently trifling thing in a stranger is right to give it great weight. It may be the clue to the whole mystery. A hair or two will show where a lion is hidden. A very little key will open a very heavy door.

When we have done our very, very best, papa, and that is not enough, then I think the right time must have come for asking help of others.

Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?