He couldn't be a doctor, or he would have a quieter and more persuasive manner.

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.

In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.

I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death.

It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by.

...and to-morrow looked in my face more steadily than I could look at it

You were kidnapped not?""I was kidnapped.""You were forced not into marriage?""I was forced into marriage.""You want not an annulment?""I want not an annulment.

I did an about-face and veered into the sandwich shop. What I ordered is none of your business, but it was really good.

I earn that I eat get that I wear owe no man hate envy no man's happiness glad of other men's good content with my harm.

Do you still look at each other like you once did, back at the beginning of the story when everything was a question you were too afraid to find the answer to?

As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self understanding and this is something that can't be taught.

I had always loved Joseph Cornell and wanted to do something with dioramas.

All is ephemeral - fame and the famous as well.

I seat myself at the typewriter and hope, and lurk.

We should never fear to negotiate, nor negotiate from fear.

Are you doing work worth doing, or are you just doing your job?