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

Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up. Even when they do, it is not perfect, and they sigh for more, and lose better things in struggling for them.

Love is a beautifier.

Poor dull Concord. Nothing colorful has come through here since the Redcoats.

Mac looked up with the oddest of all his odd expressions

... swept into the giddy vortex which keeps so many young people revolving aimlessly, till they go down or are cast upon the shore, wrecks of what they might have been

I asked for bread, and I got a stone in the shape of a pedestal.