I only mean to say that I have a feeling that it never was intended I should live long. I'm not like the rest of you.

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

Mac looked up with the oddest of all his odd expressions

A real gentleman is as polite to a little girl as to a woman.

He looked at her an instant, for the effect of the graceful girlish figure with pale, passionate face and dark eyes full of sorrow, pride and resolution was wonderfully enhanced by the gloom of the great room, and glimpses of a gathering storm in the red autumn sky.

When we make little sacrifices we like to have them appreciated, at least.