Past tears are present strength.

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.

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.

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

It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.

A Baby Sermon- The lighting and thunder, they go and they come: But the stars and the stillness are always at home