Your father, Jo. He never loses patience, never doubts or complains, but always hopes, and works and waits so cheerfully that one is ashamed to do otherwise before him.

Dear me! how happy and good we'd be, if we had no worries!

You may try your experiment for a week and see how you like it. I think by Saturday night you will find that all play and no work is as bad as all work and no play

Energy is more attractive than beauty in a man.

Six weeks is a long time to wait, and a still longer time for a girl to keep a secret.

I've neither beauty, money, nor rank, yet every foolish boy mistakes my frank interest for something warmer, and makes me miserable. It is my misfortune. Think of me what you will, but beware of me in time, for against my will I may do you harm.

...and clung more closely to the dear human love, from which our Father never means us to be weaned, but through which He draws us closer to Himself.