...Though there's reasons in things as nobody knows on---- that's pretty much what I've made out; yet some folks are so wise they'll find you fifty reasons straight off, and all the while the real reason's winking at 'em in the corner, and they niver see't.

It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.

We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his love felt through ours.

We have all our secret sins; and if we knew ourselves we should not judge each other harshly.

If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.

The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.

My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake.