Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand.

People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.

There is so much to read and the days are so short! I get more hungry for knowledge every day, and less able to satisfy my hunger.

Some people are born to make life pretty, and others to grumble that it is not pretty enough.

All the learnin' my father ever paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and the alphabet at th ' other.

Fine art, poetry, that kind of thing, elevates a nation.

Things are achieved when they are well begun.