There are thousands willing to do great things for one willing to do a small thing.

But words are vain; reject them all— They utter but a feeble part: Hear thou the depths from which they call, The voiceless longing of my heart.

there is no harm in being afraid. The only harm is in doing what Fear tells you. Fear is not your master! Laugh in his face and he will run away.

Her face was fair and pretty, with eyes like two bits of night sky, each with a star dissolved in the blue.

I find the doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about his plans — I do not say for thinking about them.

Real good-breeding is independent of the forms and refinements of what has assumed to itself the name of society.

Here I should like to remark, for the sake of princes and princesses in general, that it is a low and contemptible thing to refuse to confess a fault, or even an error. If a true princess has done wrong, she is always uneasy until she has had an opportunity of throwing the wrongness away from her by saying: 'I did it; and I wish I had not; and I am sorry for having done it.