Talented people almost always know full well the excellence that is in them.

I am not your dear; I cannot lie down: send me to school soon, Mrs. Reed, for I hate to live here.

Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps.

I have no wish to talk nonsense." "If you did, it would be in such a grave, quiet manner, I should mistake it for sense.

We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence.

You have rather the look of another world. I marvelled where you had got that sort of face.

But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!