The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.

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!

It will be your duty, and it will be your pleasure too to estimate her (as you chose her) by the qualities that she has, and not by the qualities she may not have.

I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

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

The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.

To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long weary night; to listen to the falling rain, and crouch for warmth beneath the lee of some old barn or rick, or in the hollow of a tree; are dismal things - but not so dismal as the wandering up and down where shelter is, and beds and sleepers are by thousands; a houseless rejected creature.