A child's nature is too serious a thing to admit of its being regarded as a mere appendage to another being.

Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.

Go where glory waits thee! But while fame elates thee, Oh, still remember me!

We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.

Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet.