The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.

The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me than another is the quantity of heart I find in it.

Not a hundredth part of the thoughts in my head have ever been or ever will be spoken or written — as long as I keep my senses, at least.

Instead of boiling up individuals into the species, I would draw a chalk circle round every individuality, and preach to it to keep within that, and preserve and cultivate its identity.

Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.

When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.

I rely on the promise, God is kind to women, fools, and drunk people.