Quality, not quantity, is my measure.

Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

I would like to have a second chance at my first love.

He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.

A creature undefiled by the taint of the world, unvexed by its injustice, unwearied by its hollow pleasures; a being fresh from the source of light, with something of its universal lustre in it. If childhood be this, how holy the duty to see that in its onward growth it shall be no other!

Quality, not quantity, is my measure.

Patience is the strongest of strong drinks; for it kills the giant despair.