I only want an easy mind, sir; not crushed by crowded obligations.

Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive.

Prodigious was the amount of life I lived that morning.

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye.

Adversity is a good school.

You need not think that because we chanced to be born of the same parents, I shall suffer you to fasten me down by even the feeblest claim: I can tell you this - if the whole human race, ourselves excepted, were swept away, and we two stood alone on the earth, I would leave you in the old world, and betake myself to new.

It is a happy thing that time quells the longings of vengeance and hushes the promptings of rage and aversion. I had left this woman in bitterness and hate, and I came back to her now with no other emotion than a sort of ruth for her great sufferings, and strong yearning to forget and forgive all injuries - to be reconciled and clasp hands in amity.