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

There is a mercy which is weakness, and even treason against the common good.

I think cheerfulness is a fortune in itself.

It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.

He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself.

To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.