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

Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.

I have nothing to give but my heart so full and these empty hands." "They're not empty now.

So she enjoyed herself heartily, and found, what isn't always the case, that her granted wish was all she had hoped.

Simple, sincere people seldom speak much of their piety; it shows itself in acts rather than words, and has more influence than homilies or protestations.

…because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.

I'll try and be what he loves to call me, 'a little woman,' and not be rough and wild, but do my duty here instead of wanting to be somewhere else.