That's all the freedom we canhope for - the freedom to choose our prison. [...]

I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory.

There is no use in loving things if you have to be torn from them, is there? And it's so hard to keep from loving things, isn't it?

All that Ruby said was so horribly true, she was leaving everything she cared for. She had laid up her treasures on earth only. She had lived solely for the little things of life, the things that pass, forgetting the great things that go onward into eternity bridging the gulf between the two lives and making of death a mere passing of one dwelling to the other. From twilight to unclouded day. ...it was no wonder her soul clung in blind helplessness to the only things she knew and loved.

Oh, of course there's a risk in marrying anybody, but, when it's all said and done, there's many a worse thing than a husband.

I've loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school.

Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.