Mac looked up with the oddest of all his odd expressions

To me, love isn't all. I must look up, not down, trust and honor with my whole heart, and find strenght and integrity to lean on

But, like all happiness, it did not last long.

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.

I love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man.

it was easier to do a friendly thing than it was to stay and be thanked for it.