The women of the poorer classes make sacrifices, and run risks, and bear privations, and exercise patience and kindness to a degree that the world never knows of, and would scarcely believe even if it did know.
There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.
Like men, nations are purified and strengthened by trials.
The egotist is next door to a fanatic.
Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.
Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in after life the images first presented to it.