An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself.

When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one.

His friends were those of his own blood or those whom he had known the longest; his affections, like ivy, were the growth of time, they implied no aptness in the object.

When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.

Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.

It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

A horrible sense of blackness and the treachery of fate seized hold upon the soul of the unhappy student.