And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.

If truth were everywhere to be shown, a scarlet letter would blaze forth on many a bosom.

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.

Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.

What is there so ponderous in evil, that a thumb's bigness of it should outweigh the mass of things not evil, which were heaped into the other scale!