We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.

We get a deal o' useless things about us, only because we've got the money to spend.

Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

No one who has ever known what it is to lose faith in a fellow-man whom he has profoundly loved and reverenced, will lightly say that the shock can leave the faith in the Invisible Goodness unshaken. With the sinking of high human trust, the dignity of life sinks too; we cease to believe in our own better self, since that also is part of the common nature which is degraded in our thought; and all the finer impulses of the soul are dulled.

We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one's life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.

There are robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer.