“ All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other. ”

“ Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. ”

“ Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. ”

“ There are many victories worse than a defeat. ”

“ The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best. ”

“ Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty. ”

“ Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar. ”

“ You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know. ”

“ Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions they pass no criticisms. ”

“ And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment. ”