Until you try, you don't know what you can't do.

She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

A swift carriage, of a dark night, rattling with four horses over roads that one can’t see--that’s my idea of happiness.

..her smile, which was her pretty feature, was never so pretty as when her sprightly phrase had a scratch lurking in it.

We work in the dark -- we do what we can -- we give what we have.

do you think it is better to be clever than to be good?” “Good for what?” asked the Doctor. “You are good for nothing unless you are clever.

I call people rich when they're able to meet the requirements of their imagination.