It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.

Life is my university, and I hope to graduate from it with some distinction.

Go out more, keep cheerful as well as busy, for you are the sunshine-maker of the family, and if you get dismal there is no fair weather.

Men are often bad, but babies never are.

We can't any of us do all we would like, but we can do our best for every case that comes to us, and that helps amazingly.

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

You say often you wish a library; here I gif you one; for between these two lids (he meant covers) is many books in one. Read him well, and he will help you much; for the study of character in this book will help you to read it in the world, and paint it with your pen.