Work is always my salvation and I will celebrate it.

He was poor, yet always appeared to be giving something away; a stranger, yet everyone was his friend; no longer young, but as happy-hearted as a boy; plain and peculiar, yet his face looked beautiful to many.

...a capital patient, as she never died and never got well.

I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.

She fell into the moody, miserable state of mind which often comes when strong wills have to yield to the inevitable.

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

I ask not for any crown But that which all may win; Nor try to conquer any world Except the one within.