Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

I shall do everything it becomes me to do.

Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.

Surely there was something taught her by this experience of great need; and she must be learning a secret of human tenderness and long-suffering, that the less erring could hardly know?

Animals are such agreeable friends.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?