Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.

…she'll go and fall in love, and there's an end of peace and fun, and cozy times together.

Love is apt to make lunatics of even men and saints.

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

...Meg learned to love her husband better for his poverty, because it seem to have made a man of him, giving him the strength and courage to fight his own way, and taught him a tender patience with which to bear and comfort the natural longings and failures of those he loved.

I could have been a great many things.

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