Dan clung to her in speechless gratitude, feeling the blessedness of mother love, — that divine gift which comforts, purifies, and strengthens all who seek it.

Now and then genius carries all before it, but not often. We have to climb slowly, with many slips and falls.

...a capital patient, as she never died and never got well.

politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names

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.

I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.

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