Love and Loyalty If ever men and women are their simplest, sincerest selves, it is when suffering softens the one, and sympathy strengthens the other.

…what splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bubbles burst.

Nothing seemed impossible in the beginning.

...the love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my efforts to be the woman I would have them copy.

Every house needs a grandmother in it.

Laurie felt just then that his heart was entirely broken and the world a howling wilderness.

I will make a battering-ram of my head and make my way through this rough and tumble world.