…she was one of those happily created beings who please without effort, make friends everywhere, and take life so gracefully and easily that less fortunate souls are tempted to believe that such are born under a lucky star.

If life is often so hard as this, I don't see how we ever shall get through it.

I for one don't want to be ranked among idiots, felons, and minors any longer, for I am none of them.

If we are all alive ten years hence, let's meet, and see how many of us have got our wishes, or how much nearer we are then than now.

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

Ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.

The young people were playing that still more absorbing game in which hearts are always trumps.