Work is and always has been my salvation and I thank the Lord for it.

Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you.

Resolved to take fate by the throat and shake a living out of her.

I went [to war] because I couldn't help it. I didn't want the glory or the pay; I wanted the right thing done.

...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.

Fame is a very good thing to have in the house, but cash is more convenient.

Some stories are so familiar its like going home.