“ All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other. ”
“ Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them. ”
“ When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. ”
“ Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. ”
“ In every parting there is an image of death. ”
“ Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. ”
“ There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows. ”
“ 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. ”
“ I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. ”
“ Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. ”
“ We must not sit still and look for miracles up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything. ”
“ Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty. ”
“ There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms. ”
“ Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it. ”
“ Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. ”
“ A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe. ”
“ The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. ”
“ I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved. ”