Go forward with joyful confidence.

Blows are sarcasms turned stupid.

Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.

It’s rather a strong check to one’s self-complacency to find how much of one’s right doing depends on not being in want of money.

Affection is the broadest basis of a good life.

We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.

I don't want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.